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desˈcriptionist
One who professes to give a description, spec. one who professes to give a mere or pure description, free from evaluation, prediction, or explanation; also attrib.
1827Examiner 211/2 A mere connoisseur and descriptionist. 1838Fraser's Mag. XVII. 31 These locomotive descriptionists..and thirty mile an hour travelling penmen. 1914C. D. Broad Perception ii. 91 The descriptionist view is liable to underrate it. 1950Mind LIX. 423 Munro eschews all dealings with evaluation, but like so many other pure descriptionists in fact assumes a value attitude. 1953C. E. Bazell Linguistic Form viii. 103 One man is interested in city-structure, and another is interested in the description of cities... If a city is built in the form of a square, this is not more likely to escape the eye of the descriptionist than that of the structuralist. |