dogmatist

dogmatist

English

Noun

dogmatist (plural dogmatists)

1. A stubborn, assertive, opinionated person.
2. One who derives philosophical or religious principles from a priori assertion or revelation rather than evidence or experience.
   • 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Lecture I:

     Dogmatic philosophies have sought for tests for truth which might dispense us from appealing to the future. Some direct mark, by noting which we can be protected immediately and absolutely, now and forever, against all mistake—such has been the darling dream of philosophic dogmatists.

Synonyms

• dogmatician

Related terms

• dogmatic
• dogmatism

Translations

stubborn, assertive, opinionated person

Dutch: dogmaticus (nl) m French: dogmatiste (fr) m or f German: Dogmatiker m Hungarian: dogmatikus (hu) Swedish: rättshaverist (sv) c

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Romanian

Etymology

From French dogmatiste.

Noun

dogmatist m (plural dogmatiști)

1. dogmatist

Declension

Declension of dogmatist

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) dogmatist	dogmatistul	(niște) dogmatiști	dogmatiștii
genitive/dative	(unui) dogmatist	dogmatistului	(unor) dogmatiști	dogmatiștilor
vocative	dogmatistule		dogmatiștilor