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Conversationalist vs Conversationist - What's the difference?

conversationalist | conversationist |

As nouns the difference between conversationist and conversationalist

is that conversationist is someone skilled in the art of conversations while conversationalist is a person who participates in a conversation.

conversationalist

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person who participates in a conversation.
    • If you can just ask questions about a person and nod sagely then they will leave thinking you are a brilliant conversationalist .
  • A person skilled in conversation, especially one who is not expert on the topic of conversation.

    • Hypernyms

    * (dinner talk) deipnosophist

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    conversationist

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • someone skilled in the art of conversations.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1914, author=Sarah Knowles Bolton, title=Lives of Girls Who Became Famous, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Witty, learned, imaginative, she was conceded to be the best conversationist in any circle. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1907, author=Edited by Rev. James Wood, title=The Nuttall Encyclopaedia, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=BROWN, SAMUEL, M.D., chemist, born in Haddington, grandson of John Brown of Haddington, whose life was devoted, with the zeal of a mediaeval alchemist, to a reconstruction of the science of atomics, which he did not live to see realised: a man of genius, a brilliant conversationist and an associate of the most intellectual men of his time, among the number De Quincey, Carlyle, and Emerson; wrote "Lay Sermons on the Theory of Christianity," "Lectures on the Atomic Theory," and two volumes of "Essays, Scientific and Literary" (1817-1856). }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1850, author=Various, title=International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1,, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=[A] He was expert at fence, had some skill in drawing, and was a ready and eloquent conversationist and declaimer. }}

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