Noun: absolutist
| Singular | absolutist |
| Plural | absolutists |
Sample Sentences
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the unitarian — whether materialist, idealist, or absolutist [a. 1857, William Hamilton, edited by H[enry] L[ongueville] Mansel and John Veitch, Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, published 1859–1860, →OCLC:]
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When absolutists reject humanism because they feel it to be untrue, that means that the whole habit of their mental needs is wedded already to a different view of reality, in comparison with which the humanistic world seems but the whim of a few irresponsible youths. [1909, William James, The Meaning of Truth:]
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The billionaire tech mogul, who has described himself as a free speech absolutist, introduced a new red line this week after he claimed that a car carrying one of his children was accosted by a “crazy stalker.” [2022 December 16, Bernhard Warner, “Musk Faces Growing Anger Over Twitter Ban of Journalists”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:]
Nouns inflected like absolutist
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From absolute + -ist after French absolutiste. See: French Nouns '
absolutiste'.