spiritualist
spiritualist Lexical Profile
spiritualist Game Scores & Validity
• noun
A person who believes that the spirits of the dead can communicate with the living, or a medium who practices such communication.
"In the late nineteenth century, many grieving families consulted a spiritualist in hopes of contacting lost loved ones."
An adherent of the philosophical doctrine that all reality is fundamentally spiritual or immaterial in nature.
"As a philosophical spiritualist, he argued that consciousness cannot be reduced to mere physical processes in the brain."
• adjective
Relating to or characteristic of spiritualism or spiritualists.
"She attended a spiritualist church that emphasized healing and messages from the afterlife."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Coined in the mid-19th century from 'spiritual' and the suffix '-ist', emerging during the rise of the modern Spiritualism movement in upstate New York.