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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He was a radical obsessed with both revolution and order, an incorrigible skeptic and an insightful metaphysician.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 22, 2019
But just when things get comfortable, in drops Jay Electronica, hip-hop metaphysician, with some confidently delivered and unusually phrased truisms: “Reality is kinda hard to face/Like actual facts is to flat-earthers.”
From New York Times • Apr. 6, 2018
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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