SCHOPENHAUER

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

1. German pessimist philosopher (1788-1860)

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

• SCHOPENHAUER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

German pessimist philosopher (1788-1860)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Arthur Schopenhauer; Schopenhauer

Instance hypernyms:

philosopher (a specialist in philosophy)

 Context examples 

He'll talk Nietzsche, or Schopenhauer, or Kant, or anything, but the only thing in this world, not excepting Mary, that he really cares for, is his monism.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He kept a summer cottage in Mill Valley, under the shadow of Mount Tamalpais, and never occupied it except when he loafed through the winter months and read Nietzsche and Schopenhauer to rest his brain.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)