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schematists

schematists is the plural of schematist.

Meaning of schematist

Noun

schematist (plural schematists)

  1. (obsolete) One given to forming schemes; schemer.
    • August 26 1711, Jonathan Swift, letter to William King
      He never wants a reserve upon any emergency, which would appear desperate to others; and makes little use of those thousand projectors and schematists, who are daily plying him with their visions, but to be thoroughly convinced, by the...
  2. One who thinks about or develops formal schemata or abstract frameworks.
    • What is the scalar extreme to spontaneity? To the schematist it might seem to be inhibition: but clinically —as the manifestations described above suggest — it would seem to be a behavioral complex of compulsive and inhibitory elements.2013, Henry Harris, The Group Approach To Leadership-Testing, page 169

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Questions about schematists

What is schematists the plural of?
Schematists is the plural of schematist.

Words near schematists in the dictionary

  1. schematises
  2. schematising
  3. schematism
  4. schematisms
  5. schematist
  6. schematists
  7. schematizable
  8. schematization
  9. schematizations
  10. schematize
  11. schematized

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