As nouns the difference between philosopher and philosophaster
is that
philosopher is a person devoted to studying and producing results in philosophy while
philosophaster is a pretender to philosophy; a petty or charlatan philosopher.
philosopher English
Alternative forms
* phylosopher (nonstandard)
Noun
( en noun)
A person devoted to studying and producing results in philosophy.
* 2007 , (Harold Bloom), Bloom's Modern Critical Views: Stephen King
*:Their playwrights knew better. Scandal, murder, hair-rending and railing against the gods sold tickets. King is not a philosopher . He knows how to sell tickets.
* 1813 , (Jane Austen), (Pride and Prejudice)
*:This is not the sort of happiness which a man would in general wish to owe to his wife; but where other powers of entertainment are wanting, the true philosopher will derive benefit from such as are given.
(obsolete) An alchemist.
- (Chaucer)
Antonyms
* nonphilosopher
Related terms
* philosopher's stone
* philosophical
* philosophizer
* philosophy
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philosophaster English
Noun
( en noun)
a pretender to philosophy; a petty or charlatan philosopher.
Synonyms
* philosophe
See also
* criticaster
* medicaster
* poetaster
* theologaster
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