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TELEOLOGIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does teleologist mean? 

TELEOLOGIST (noun)
  The noun TELEOLOGIST has 1 sense:

1. advocate of teleologyplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


TELEOLOGIST (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Advocate of teleology

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

advocate; advocator; exponent; proponent (a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea)

Derivation:

teleology ((philosophy) a doctrine explaining phenomena by their ends or purposes)


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