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Practitioner vs Yogist - What's the difference?

practitioner | yogist |

As nouns the difference between practitioner and yogist

is that practitioner is a person who practices a profession or art, especially law or medicine while yogist is a practitioner of yoga.

As an adjective yogist is

pertaining to yogism.

practitioner

English

(wikipedia practitioner)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person who practices a profession or art, especially law or medicine.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2014-06-21, volume=411, issue=8892, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Magician’s brain , passage=The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason.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.}}
  • One who does anything customarily or habitually.
  • (label) A sly or artful person.
  • * John Whitgift
    • the men of St. John's were cunning practitioners , in shaking off their Masters and Heads.

    Derived terms

    * general practitioner * nurse practitioner * pracademic

    Related terms

    * practic * practicable * practical * practice * practise

    References

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    yogist

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Pertaining to yogism.
  • * 1939 , Wilfred Byron Shaw, Quarterly Review: A Journal of University Perspectives
    • There he is today, spending eighteen hours a day reciting sacred words, studying, and practicing yogist disciplines; he eats only uncooked seeds.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A practitioner of yoga.