determinist

American  

[di-tur-min-ist] / dɪˈtɜr mɪn ɪst /

noun

plural

determinists

1. a person who believes in or promotes determinism.

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adjective

1. relating to or characteristic of determinism.

Other Word Forms

• determinism noun
• deterministic adjective
• deterministically adverb
• non-deterministic adjective
• predeterministic adjective

Example Sentences

In these scenes, we see a father’s attempt, clumsily yet movingly, to liberate his son from an overly determinist view of race and class.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 7, 2022

A soft determinist will assume that free will is compatible with determinism.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

As always, there’s a risk of being a technological determinist here: to assume that Facebook’s algorithms are more powerful they are, or operate in a vacuum.

From The Verge • Sep. 23, 2021

“Biological determinist arguments all have a similar form,” Dr. Lewontin once wrote in a takedown of sociobiology, dismissing such arguments as all envisioning the same flawed model of society.

From Washington Post • Jul. 8, 2021

This showed that the victorious school would have to reckon with the doctrines of the defeated party, and suggested that a determinist theatre might be the ultimate outcome of a compromise.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" by Various