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ETHICIST
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Dictionary entry overview: What does ethicist mean?
• ETHICIST (noun)
The noun ETHICIST has 1 sense:
1. a philosopher who specializes in ethics
Familiarity information: ETHICIST used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A philosopher who specializes in ethics
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
ethician; ethicist
Hypernyms ("ethicist" is a kind of...):
philosopher (a specialist in philosophy)
Derivation:
ethicism (a doctrine that ethics and ethical ideas are valid and important)
ethics (the philosophical study of moral values and rules)
ethics (motivation based on ideas of right and wrong)
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