Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A theorist. Also spelled theoriser.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who theorizes or speculates; a theorist.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun One who forms a theory.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun someone who theorizes (especially in science or art)

Etymologies

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theorize +‎ -er

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Examples

  • Also should theorizing be called feminist if the theorizer does not identify his/herself as feminist?

    2009 January « There’s More to this than Waves 2009

  • Also if a theorizer calls his/herself a feminist does that automatically mean that all of his/her theorizing is feminist?

    2009 January « There’s More to this than Waves 2009

  • As such, Hamburger is equal parts myth debunker and modernization theorizer; Pizza traces transatlantic classism, corporate global­ization, and methodology-as-variety; and Pancake offers an iterative look at comfort food, cultural controversy, and appellative breadth.

    Cover to Cover 2008

  • As such, Hamburger is equal parts myth debunker and modernization theorizer; Pizza traces transatlantic classism, corporate global­ization, and methodology-as-variety; and Pancake offers an iterative look at comfort food, cultural controversy, and appellative breadth.

    Cover to Cover 2008

  • Several weeks ago I had the opportunity to talk to Entertainment Weekly senior writer, and LOST theorizer extraordinaire, Jeff Jensen!

    The Tail Section » 2006 » August 2006

  • Several weeks ago I had the opportunity to talk to Entertainment Weekly senior writer, and LOST theorizer extraordinaire, Jeff Jensen!

    The Tail Section » Jeff Jensen of EW Talks LOST! Part One 2006

  • Major mineralogist and theorizer on the origins of rocks, Werner taught at the famous Freiberg School of Mines, where he lectured on his theory that rocks had been originally deposited as sediments in an ancient sea and that the kind of rocks produced in this process varied with the weather at the time.

    American Connections James Burke 2007

  • Major mineralogist and theorizer on the origins of rocks, Werner taught at the famous Freiberg School of Mines, where he lectured on his theory that rocks had been originally deposited as sediments in an ancient sea and that the kind of rocks produced in this process varied with the weather at the time.

    American Connections James Burke 2007

  • It is often pointed out that Hawking is a theorizer; he leaves empiricism and proof behind in the dust.

    A Beautiful Mind, an Ugly Possibility Bachrach, Judy 2004

  • Half an hour after meeting a man he was accustomed to place him in one of a number of astonishing categories — fine man, good man, smart fellow, theorizer, poet, and

    The Beautiful and Damned 2003

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