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technicist|ˈtɛknɪsɪst|
[f. as prec. + -ist.]
1. = technician; one who has technical knowledge.
1881T. Hardy Laodicean iii. xi, Somerset himself [an architect] as chief technicist working out his designs on the spot. 1906Academy 20 June 617/1 Turner's greatest admirers are the painters, and Mr. Wyllie..enjoys it [T.'s work] with the exquisite pleasure of the technicist.
2. attrib. or as adj. Of or pertaining to technicism (sense 2).
1932tr. Ortega y Gasset's Revolt of Masses 151 We are told quite seriously that the essence of America is its practical and technicist conception of life. 1974Times 16 Mar. 16 A technicist society indifferent to location and continuity will undermine itself by wrecking the structures of meaning on which any society must rest. |