metaphysician
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of metaphysician
1425–75; late Middle English metaphisicien, probably < Middle French metaphysicien, equivalent to metaphysique metaphysic + -ien -ian
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Hegel was a metaphysician whose insistence that Geist, or spirit, pervades the historical process and moves it to some grand culmination is difficult to distinguish from New Age mysticism, and hence charlatanism.
From Salon ● Mar. 28, 2026
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
If he were not a great composer he would be a great biologist, a great metaphysician.
From Unicorns by James Huneker
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