Enthusiast vs Practitioner - What's the difference?
enthusiast | practitioner |
A person filled with or guided by enthusiasm.
(archaic) A person exhibiting over-zealous religious fervour.
A person who practices a profession or art, especially law or medicine.
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, title= One who does anything customarily or habitually.
(label) A sly or artful person.
* John Whitgift
As nouns the difference between enthusiast and practitioner
is that enthusiast is a person filled with or guided by enthusiasm while practitioner is a person who practices a profession or art, especially law or medicine.enthusiast
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Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* addict * * amateur * fancier * fan * fanatic * fiend * freak * geek * junkie * rooter * maniac * partisan * power user (computing) * prosumer (marketing) * zealotSee also
* -phileExternal links
* *practitioner
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(wikipedia practitioner)Noun
(en noun)Magician’s brain, passage=The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason. The architect of modern science was himself not very modern. He was obsessed with alchemy.}}
- the men of St. John's were cunning practitioners , in shaking off their Masters and Heads.