non-naturalistadj.n.
/nɒnˈnatʃ(ə)rəlɪst/, /nɒnˈnatʃ(ə)rl̩ɪst/, U.S. /nɑ(n)ˈnætʃ(ə)rələst/ A. adj.† 1. Of a person: not a student of natural history; not a naturalist. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > life > biology > study > person who studies > [adjective] > natural history > not versed in
non-naturalist1858
1858 C. Darwin in Life & Lett. (1887) II. 138 Being quizzed by my non-naturalist relations.
1873 J. E. Taylor Half-hours in Green Lanes 2 The most non-naturalist of pedestrians.
2. Philosophy. Of or relating to non-naturalism (non-naturalism n. 2).
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > moral philosophy > [adjective] > in accordance with doctrine of non-naturalism
non-naturalistic1902
non-naturalist1944
1944 Mind 53 122 The forms of naturalist ethics in question do not differ from ‘non-naturalist’ ethics in denying the objectivity of ethics.
1966 Amer. Philos. Q. 3 299/2 Such a derivation, if valid, might be..a counter-example to the non-naturalist thesis.
1973 Heythrop Jrnl. 14 139 His normative views are no more arbitrary or relativist than those of any utilitarian, despite his non-naturalist and prescriptivist theory of meta-ethics.
1992 Jrnl. Philos. & Phenemonol. Res. 52 731 The first two chapters of the book are devoted to criticizing non-naturalist theories of possibility.
3. In literature and the arts: that does not aim at a faithful representation of nature; that is not naturalistic or realistic in style.
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society > leisure > the arts > the arts in general > [adjective] > general
classical1784
non-naturalist1950
1950 A. G. Lehmann Symbolist Aesthetic in France 192 The Wagnerian cult..infused life into an independent, non-naturalist dramatic impulse.
1953 R. Williams Drama from Ibsen to Eliot 157 Deirdre is a fully serious, non-naturalist tragedy.
2000 J. Caughie Television Drama iv. 108 The best non-naturalist drama, in its very structures disorientates the viewer smack in the middle of the orientation process which television perpetually uses.
B. n.
Philosophy. An adherent of non-naturalism.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > moral philosophy > [noun] > naturalism > non-naturalism and its adherents
non-naturalism1939
non-naturalist1939
1939 Mind 48 5 It is not indeed the only sense of good which the non-naturalist will hold incapable of reduction to naturalistic terms.
1966 Amer. Philos. Q. 3 305/2 Both non-naturalists and their critics seem to be seriously mistaken.
1988 T. L. S. Sprigge Rational Found. Ethics iii. 74 Attitudinists are sometimes rather oddly lumped together with intuitionists as non-naturalists.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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