naturalist
English
noun
Definitions
- (obsolete) A natural philosopher; a scientist.
- (philosophy) A person who believes in or advocates the tenets of philosophical or methodological naturalism.
- An expert in natural history or the study of plants and animals.
- (art) A creative artist who attempts to faithfully represent nature; an adherent of artistic naturalism.
Etymology
Suffix from English natural (reasonable, as expected, of relating to nature).
Origin
English
natural
Gloss
reasonable, as expected, of relating to nature
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- all-natural English
- antinatural English
- antinaturalist English
- antinaturalistic English
- conatural English
- connatural English
- contranatural English
- counternatural English
- hypernatural English
- hypernaturalistic English
- infranatural English
- metanatural English
- natural English
- natural fiber English
- naturalism English
- naturalistic English
- naturalistically English
- naturally English
- naturalness English
- nonnatural English
- nonnaturalist English
- nonnaturalistic English
- paranatural English
- postnatural English
- semi-natural English
- seminatural English
- subnatural English
- supranatural English
- supranaturalistic English
- unnatural English
- unnaturalistic English
- natural Middle English
- natural
- naturally
- unnatural
- conatural
- naturalism
- nonnatural
- connatural
- subnatural
- naturalness
- all-natural
- paranatural
- seminatural
- metanatural
- antinatural
- postnatural
- hypernatural
- semi-natural
- supranatural
- infranatural
- naturalistic
- natural fiber
- contranatural
- nonnaturalist
- counternatural
- unnaturalistic
- antinaturalist
- nonnaturalistic
- naturalistically
- antinaturalistic
- supranaturalistic
- hypernaturalistic