Absolutistとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• (adjective): absolutistic

語源

From absolute +‎ -ist after French absolutiste.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈæb.səˌluː.tɪst/, /ˈæb.səˌljuː.tɪst/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈæb.səˌlu.tɪst/

名詞

absolutist (plural absolutists)

1. One who is in favor of an absolute or autocratic government. [from mid 19th c.]
2. (metaphysics) One who believes that it is possible to realize a cognition or concept of the Absolute. [from mid 19th c.]
   • 1859–1860, William Hamilton, edited by H[enry] L[ongueville] Mansel and John Veitch, Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC:

     the unitarian — whether materialist, idealist, or absolutist

   • 1909, William James, The Meaning of Truth‎:

     When absolutists reject humanism because they feel it to be untrue, that means that the whole habit of their mental needs is wedded already to a different view of reality, in comparison with which the humanistic world seems but the whim of a few irresponsible youths.

3. An uncompromising person; one who maintains certain principles to be absolute. [from early 20th c.]
   • 2022 December 16, Bernhard Warner, “Musk Faces Growing Anger Over Twitter Ban of Journalists”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     The billionaire tech mogul, who has described himself as a free speech absolutist, introduced a new red line this week after he claimed that a car carrying one of his children was accosted by a “crazy stalker.”

派生語

形容詞

absolutist (comparative more absolutist, superlative most absolutist)

1. Of or pertaining to absolutism; arbitrary; despotic; uncompromising. [from mid 19th c.]
   • 1911, H. W. Carless Davis, Medieval Europe‎:

     The best and the worst features of the communal regime are illustrated in the resistance of the Lombard cities to Frederic Barbarossa, the first Emperor who formulated and applied to Italy a scheme of absolutist government.

派生語

• absolutistic
• absolutistical
• absolutistically

参照

• “absolutist”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “absolutist”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.