ethicist

American  

[eth-uh-sist] / ˈɛθ ə sɪst /

Also ethician

noun

1. a person who specializes in or writes on ethics ethics or who is devoted to ethical principles.

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Etymology

Origin of ethicist

First recorded in 1890–95; ethic + -ist

Example Sentences

Dr John Appleby, a medical ethicist at Lancaster University, said the implications of using sperm so widely was a "vast" ethical minefield.

From BBC • Dec. 12, 2025

Dr. Dugdale is a physician and ethicist at Columbia University and the author of “The Lost Art of Dying: Reviving Forgotten Wisdom.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025

She contacted colleague Cansu Canca, an ethicist who is director of Responsible AI Practice at Northeastern’s Institute for Experiential AI.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 31, 2025

“Then, I just flopped back down on my back and experienced this overwhelming feeling of absolute bliss,” Leier, an ethicist at the University of Alberta in Canada, told Salon in a phone interview.

From Salon • Apr. 23, 2025

And he is, much more certainly, the only thoroughly emancipated, the only thoroughly modern and scientific ethicist that ever lived.

From The Philosophy of Spinoza by Ratner, Joseph