POSITIVIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does positivist mean? 

• POSITIVIST (noun)
  The noun POSITIVIST has 1 sense:

1. someone who emphasizes observable facts and excludes metaphysical speculation about origins or ultimate causes

  Familiarity information: POSITIVIST used as a noun is very rare.

• POSITIVIST (adjective)
  The adjective POSITIVIST has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to positivism

  Familiarity information: POSITIVIST used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POSITIVIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who emphasizes observable facts and excludes metaphysical speculation about origins or ultimate causes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

positivist; rationalist

Hypernyms ("positivist" is a kind of...):

nonreligious person (a person who does not manifest devotion to a deity)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "positivist"):

logical positivist (someone who maintains that any statement that cannot be verified empirically is meaningless)

Derivation:

positivism (the form of empiricism that bases all knowledge on perceptual experience (not on intuition or revelation))

positivist (of or relating to positivism)

• POSITIVIST (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to positivism

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

positive; positivist; positivistic

Context example:

positive philosophy

Pertainym:

positivism (the form of empiricism that bases all knowledge on perceptual experience (not on intuition or revelation))

Derivation:

positivist (someone who emphasizes observable facts and excludes metaphysical speculation about origins or ultimate causes)