Definitions For Possibilist

Noun

POSSIBILIST (plural POSSIBILISTs) (philosophy) Someone who advocates possibilism, the position that things do not need to actually exist in order to have properties. (socialism, historical) A socialist who advocates focusing on small, achievable forms of immediate progress rather than an all-or-nothing commitment to revolution. (philosophy) Someone who neither hopes without reason, nor fears without reason. Someone who uses analysis of data to understand the relative probability of future possibilities, instead of relying on intuition, emotions, personal experience, dogma, superstition, mainstream thought, or mental models (e.g., pessimism or optimism).

Antonyms

someone who believes that things do not need to exist in order to have properties actualist reformist socialist impossibilist; revolutionary

Related terms

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Translations

{{trans-top}} French: possibiliste, m, f Italian: possibilista, m, f

Etymology

from possible + ist.

Is Possibilist a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends NO
Scrabble US NO
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
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Words with Friends
18

The word Possibilist is worth 15 points in Scrabble and 18 points in Words with Friends

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