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PRONUNCIATION OF DETECTIVIST

detectivist  [dɪˈtɛktɪvɪst] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DETECTIVIST

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adjective
verb
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pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
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Detectivist is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES DETECTIVIST MEAN IN ENGLISH?

detectivist

Detective

A detective is an investigator, either a member of a law enforcement agency or a private person. The latter may be known as private investigators or "private eyes". Informally, and primarily in fiction, a detective is any licensed or unlicensed person who solves crimes, including historical crimes, or looks into records.

Definition of detectivist in the English dictionary

The definition of detectivist in the dictionary is a person who holds the philosophical theory of detectivism.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DETECTIVIST


activist
ˈæktɪvɪst
archivist
ˈɑːkɪvɪst
collectivist
kəˈlɛktɪvɪst
constructivist
kənˈstrʌktɪvɪst
descriptivist
dɪˈskrɪptɪvɪst
destructivist
dɪˈstrʌktɪvɪst
exclusivist
ɪkˈskluːsɪvɪst
hacktivist
ˈhæktɪvɪst
lactivist
ˈlæktɪvɪst
nativist
ˈneɪtɪvɪst
negativist
ˈnɛɡətɪvɪst
nonobjectivist
ˌnɒnəbˈdʒektɪvɪst
objectivist
əbˈdʒektɪvɪst
perspectivist
pəˈspɛktɪvɪst
positivist
ˈpɒzɪtɪvɪst
prescriptivist
prɪˈskrɪptɪvɪst
progressivist
prəˈɡresɪvɪst
recidivist
rɪˈsɪdɪvɪst
relativist
ˈrelətɪvɪst
slacktivist
ˈslæktɪvɪst

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DETECTIVIST

detectable
detecter
detectible
detection
detective
detective chief inspector
detective chief superintendent
detective constable
detective device
detective inspector
detective novel
detective sergeant
detective story
detective superintendent
detective work
detective-like
detectophone
detector
detector van
detectorist

WORDS THAT END LIKE DETECTIVIST

atavist
Bolshevist
comparativist
Fauvist
human rights activist
Jahvist
Jehovist
Lagerkvist
logical positivist
Menshevist
naivist
ovist
passivist
peace activist
primitivist
reservist
subjectivist
Yahvist

Synonyms and antonyms of detectivist in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «detectivist» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DETECTIVIST

Find out the translation of detectivist to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of detectivist from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «detectivist» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

detectivist
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

detectivist
570 millions of speakers

English

detectivist
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

detectivist
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

detectivist
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

detectivist
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

detectivist
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

detectivist
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

detectivist
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pengesan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

detectivist
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

detectivist
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

detectivist
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Detectivist
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

detectivist
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

detectivist
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

गुप्त पोलिस
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

detectivist
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

detectivist
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

detectivist
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

detectivist
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

detectivist
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

detectivist
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

detectivist
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

detectivist
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

detectivist
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of detectivist

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DETECTIVIST»

The term «detectivist» is normally little used and occupies the 150.256 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DETECTIVIST» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about detectivist

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DETECTIVIST»

Discover the use of detectivist in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to detectivist and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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What is Truth?
A different response, more consonant with contemporary anti-realism, would be the position Crispin Wright calls "detectivist anti-realism".12 It accepts the idea of a reality wholly independent of our thought about it, but regards us as seeking to  ...
Richard Schantz, 2002
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A Philosophy of Cinematic Art
there to be found, i.e., that it is determined independently of the viewer's opinion about it, the detectivist view of interpretation. Detectivist views take a wide variety of forms. Intentionalists count as detectivists, since they believe that the meaning  ...
Berys Gaut, 2010
3
What is Truth?
A different response, more consonant with contemporary anti-realism, would be the position Crispin Wright calls “detectivist anti-realism”.12 It accepts the idea of a reality wholly independent of our thought about it, but regards us as seeking to  ...
Walter De Gruyter Incorporated, 2001
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Reification : A New Look At An Old Idea: A New Look At An ...
Honneth would have to show that if someone accepts the detectivist account of mental states in the philosophy of mind he thereby “relates to its mental states as if to something fixed and given.” This does not follow. It may well be that the story  ...
Frankfurt-am-Main Axel Honneth Professor Institut fur Sozialforschung, 2007
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Intuitions as Evidence
In other Words, not only must it be that there is a merely psychological (or non- detectivist) explanation of our judgments. In addition, the best explanation of why we are psychologically constituted so as to make such judgements must not ...
Joel Pust, 2013
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TRUTH AND OBJECTIVITY
So, it is natural to suggest, the Euthyphronist is committed to the maturity of the relevant basic equation.22 By contrast, if, as according to Socrates' detectivist view, best opinion is merely responsive to truth, then it seems that it ought to be a  ...
Crispin WRIGHT, 2009
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REAL: The Yearbook of Research in English and American ...
This situation is indicative of the methodological assumptions of scholarship and of the preconceived notions concerning literary theory which inform the detectivist approach. But literature is in no way obliged to provide a work of art which ...
Herbert Grabes, Hans-Jurgen Diller, Hartwig Isernhagen, 1988
8
Anti-Semitism and Anti-Zionism in Historical Perspective: ...
44 In seeking sources for the paranoid vision of the “Zionists” in March 1968, we need to take into consideration not only anti-Semitic stereotypes but also the secret police's partiality for conspiracy theories and a more widespread “ detectivist ...
Jeffrey Herf, 2013
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Rails to Infinity: Essays on Themes from Wittgenstein's ...
Rather than as based on recollection of an antecedent fact, the non-detectivist will regard it as owing to the operation of a similar right-to-left priority, only with the right-hand side of the biconditional modified so as to include at least the proviso ...
Crispin Wright, 2001
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Liaisons: Philosophy Meets the Cognitive and Social Sciences
The availability of purely psychological explanations of the intuitions ostensibly provide a systematic alternative to such "detectivist" explanations. As in the haecceitism case, we can restrict our acceptance of essentialism to a purely subjectivist ...
Alvin I. Goldman, 1992

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DETECTIVIST»

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Language Arts, or Lack Thereof
The second word is about Kertész's translators, and about the detectivist subplot that comprises any covert passage between languages, ... «Forward, Apr 08»

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