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Theoretician vs Thinker - What's the difference?

theoretician | thinker |

As nouns the difference between theoretician and thinker

is that theoretician is someone who is expert in the theory of a particular science or art while thinker is one who spends time thinking, contemplating]] or [[meditate|meditating.

theoretician

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • someone who is expert in the theory of a particular science or art
  • a theorist
  • * {{quote-web
    • , date = 2013-12-10 , author = Ron Cowen , title = Simulations back up theory that Universe is a hologram , site = Nature News , url = http://www.nature.com/news/simulations-back-up-theory-that-universe-is-a-hologram-1.14328 , accessdate = 2014-04-27 }}
    “They have numerically confirmed, perhaps for the first time, something we were fairly sure had to be true, but was still a conjecture — namely that the thermodynamics of certain black holes can be reproduced from a lower-dimensional universe,” says Leonard Susskind, a theoretical physicist at Stanford University in California who was among the first theoreticians to explore the idea of holographic universes.

    thinker

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who spends time thinking, contemplating]] or [[meditate, meditating.
  • An intellectual, such as a philosopher or theologian.

    • Usage notes

    * Adjectives often applied to "thinker": creative, deep, critical, great, strategic, original, political, clear, social, brilliant, logical, liberal, conservative, influential, lateral, radical, religious, profound, abstract.

    Derived terms

    * deep thinker

    Anagrams

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