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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When he wasn’t blasting Big 10 Conference defenses, he was studying the works of the German metaphysician Immanuel Kant or tending to a 500-piece jigsaw puzzle without using the box as a guide.
From New York Times • Nov. 21, 2021
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
There seems, in fact, to be no one universally accepted definition of our study, and even no very general consensus among its votaries as to the problems with which the metaphysician ought to concern himself.
From International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics by Various
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