metaphysician
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of metaphysician
1425–75; late Middle English metaphisicien, probably < Middle French metaphysicien, equivalent to metaphysique metaphysic + -ien -ian
Example Sentences
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Italo Calvino: I’d need a master metaphysician, storyteller and prestidigitator to make something glittering out of my mostly repetitive and rather beige existence.
From New York Times • Nov. 19, 2020
He was a radical obsessed with both revolution and order, an incorrigible skeptic and an insightful metaphysician.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 22, 2019
He describes himself as “a metaphysician disguised as a theoretical physicist.”
From Scientific American • Mar. 4, 2018
But at his best Dick was a focused and penetrating metaphysician.
From The Guardian • Aug. 27, 2017
In the first place, it must be borne in mind that it is the same world with which the plain man, the man of science, and the metaphysician are concerned.
From International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics by Various
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