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Meaning of "ironist" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF IRONIST

ironist  [ˈaɪərənɪst] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF IRONIST

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adjective
verb
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pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Ironist 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 IRONIST MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Ironism

Ironist , a term coined by Richard Rorty, describes someone who fulfills three conditions: ▪ She has radical and continuing doubts about the final vocabulary she currently uses, because she has been impressed by other vocabularies, vocabularies taken as final by people or books she has encountered; ▪ She realizes that argument phrased in her present vocabulary can neither underwrite nor dissolve these doubts; ▪ Insofar as she philosophizes about her situation, she does not think that her vocabulary is closer to reality than others, that it is in touch with a power not herself. — Richard Rorty, Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989, p.73 In Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity, Rorty argues that Proust, Nietzsche, Foucault, Heidegger, Derrida, and Nabokov, among others, all exemplify Ironism to different extents.

Definition of ironist in the English dictionary

The definition of ironist in the dictionary is a person who uses irony.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH IRONIST


accordionist
əˈkɔːdɪənɪst
agonist
ˈæɡənɪst
antagonist
ænˈtæɡənɪst
educationist
ˌɛdʒʊˈkeɪʃənɪst
exhibitionist
ˌɛksɪˈbɪʃənɪst
expressionist
ɪkˈsprɛʃənɪst
humanist
ˈhjuːmənɪst
illusionist
ɪˈluːʒənɪst
impressionist
ɪmˈprɛʃənɪst
modernist
ˈmɒdənɪst
nutritionist
njuːˈtrɪʃənɪst
organist
ˈɔːɡənɪst
perfectionist
pəˈfɛkʃənɪst
pianist
ˈpɪənɪst
projectionist
prəˈdʒɛkʃənɪst
protagonist
prəʊˈtæɡənɪst
Pyrrhonist
ˈpɪrənɪst
receptionist
rɪˈsɛpʃənɪst
reductionist
rɪˈdʌkʃənɪst
Zionist
ˈzaɪənɪst

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE IRONIST

ironhanded
ironhearted
ironic
ironical
ironically
ironicalness
ironies
ironing
ironing board
ironise
ironize
ironless
ironlike
ironman
ironmaster
ironmonger
ironmonger´s
ironmongery
ironness
irons

WORDS THAT END LIKE IRONIST

abolitionist
abortionist
anti-Zionist
balloonist
cartoonist
colonist
communist
conservationist
constructionist
dental receptionist
evolutionist
fashionist
hotel receptionist
obstructionist
percussionist
precisionist
revisionist
revolutionist
telephonist
trade unionist
unionist

Synonyms and antonyms of ironist in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «ironist» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF IRONIST

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

Translator English - Chinese

反讽
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

ironista
570 millions of speakers

English

ironist
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

ironist
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

ironist
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

ироник
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

ironista
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ironist
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

ironiste
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Ironis
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Ironiker
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ironist
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

ironist
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ironis
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

ironist
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ironist
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

लोखंडी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

ironist
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

ironist
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

ironista
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

іронік
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

ironist
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

είρων
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

ironist
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

ironist
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

ironist
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of ironist

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «IRONIST»

The term «ironist» is normally little used and occupies the 129.584 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «IRONIST» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «ironist» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «ironist» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «IRONIST»

Discover the use of ironist in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to ironist and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Socrates, Ironist and Moral Philosopher
Putnam discusses each of the fifteen odes found in the book, studying the work both as a whole and as a series of interactive units.
Gregory Vlastos, 1991
2
The Ironist's Cage: Memory, Trauma, and the Construction of ...
-- Hayden White, Stanford University
Michael S. Roth, 1995
3
The Ironist and the Romantic: Reading Richard Rorty and ...
Rorty's liberal ironist theory has room for the two kinds of intellectual. Recognizing the historicist premises ofboth, however, he cautions against any theoretical or metaphysical attempts to bring them together. He distinguishes further between ...
Áine Mahon, 2014
4
Socrates: Ironist and Moral Philosopher
At the heart of the book is the paradoxical nature of Socratic thought. But the paradoxes are explained, not explained away. The book highlights the tensions in the Socratic search for the answer to the question 'How should we live?
Gregory Vlastos, 1991
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Hegel's Phenomenology: The Sociality of Reason
The ironist thus seems to be denying outright what the non-ironist understands for all practical purposes to be the "commonsense" criteria of intelligence and rationality themselves. The ironist's account denies the very possibility of the validity ...
Terry Pinkard, 1996
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The Atlantic Monthly
It is this incasing that the ironist fears, and it is the ironical method that he finds the best for preventing it. Irony keeps the waters in motion, so that the ice never has a chance to form. The cut-and- dried life is easy to form because it has no sense ...
‎1913
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Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity
To illustrate my claim that, for us ironists, theory has become a means to private perfection rather than to human solidarity, I shall discuss some paradigms of ironist theory: the young Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Derrida. I shall use the ...
Richard Rorty, 1989
8
The Meaning of Irony: A Psychoanalytic Investigation
Nor can it exist — as the case of Gulliver's Travels shows clearly — unless the ironist can command belief (ambivalent, to be sure) in his own innocence and in his right to his aggression. However doggedly K. (and Kafka) may try to put on a ...
Frank Stringfellow, 1994
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Richard Rorty
This book serves as both an excellent introduction to Rorty's work and an innovative critique which contributes to ongoing debates in the field. Neil Gascoigne provides the first comprehensive introduction Richard Rorty’s work.
Neil Gascoigne, 2013
10
The Concept of Irony
A "pure ironist," such as Socrates, who is completely alienated from his culture, would find a partial ally in anyone who reads devotional literature and accepts that "all is vanity." For Socrates, and also for the "devout mind" that exemplifies the ...
Robert L. Perkins, 2001

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «IRONIST»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term ironist is used in the context of the following news items.
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Road House Is Patrick Swayze's Finest Hour, And Also America's
... everything he sees. It's dumb. Road House deserves better. Let's rescue it from ironist dickbags and remember it as the all-time classic it is. «Deadspin, Jul 15»
2
We don't throw anything away
Even so, he doesn't consider himself an ironist. He swears his art is damn serious, but you suspect his statements are part of the game. After all ... «Times of Malta, Jul 15»
3
Jewish name-calling: a note on Michael Oren, Leon Wieseltier and …
... alternately, “the king of spurious and lazy accusations,” “a fine ironist,” “the Grand Inquisitor himself,” “the gray-haired sage of D.C.” (though, ... «Jewish Journal, Jul 15»
4
The Not-Dead and the Saved – Kate Clanchy's first short-story …
In the hands of an ironist, Sandra would be a dithering fool, but in Clanchy's grasp she serves as the voice of reason and modernity, arguing ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
5
What Would Thucydides Say About the Crisis in Greece?
The ironist in Thucydides would appreciate that the very monuments in Athens, largely funded by its imperial mastery, might end up as ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
6
Review: Sarah Hepola's 'Blackout,' on the Darkness That Took Over …
An ironist in an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, as David Foster Wallace wrote in “Infinite Jest,” “is a witch in church.” Sarah Hepola's new ... «New York Times, Jun 15»
7
The Bitter Irony of Leon Wieseltier's Outrage at Michael Oren
(Whose Israel politics are, as an exasperated Wieseltier complains, just a shade to the left of Oren's; Wieseltier is, as I said, a fine ironist.). «Forward, Jun 15»
8
Milan Kundera: The Festival Of Insignificance (Faber & Faber)
In fact, this may be the great ironist's most magnificent joke: that this novella has all the bearing of many thousands of books. The joke is on ... «Herald Scotland, Jun 15»
9
Route 50: Driving America's 'Loneliest Road'
... height of America's postwar majesty, when you could wax Whitmanesque about the whole vast place without coming off as a master ironist. «Newsweek, Jun 15»
10
Ulysses and the God of Irony
Is Joyce an ironist—or the opposite, a sentimentalist? Or is he something else? * * *. The ironic reading has been influential in the world of ... «First Things, Jun 15»

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