a person versed in ethics or devoted to ethical ideals
: also ethician (ɛθˈɪʃən)
ethicist in American English
(ˈeθəsɪst)
noun
a person who specializes in or writes on ethics or who is devoted to ethical principles
Also: ethician (eˈθɪʃən)
Word origin
[1890–95; ethic + -ist]This word is first recorded in the period 1890–95. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: historicism, masochism, phoneme, plein-air, pogey-ist is a suffix of nouns, often corresponding to verbs ending in -ize or nouns ending in -ism, that denote a person who practices or is concerned with something, or holds certainprinciples, doctrines, etc. Other words that use the affix -ist include: Thomist, apologist, machinist, novelist, socialist
Examples of 'ethicist' in a sentence
ethicist
After all, where would the engineers of driverless cars be without their ethicist colleagues?
Times, Sunday Times (2018)
But to an ethicist, surely quite a lot.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
No writer, psychiatrist or medical ethicist offered an easy answer.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
What would the ethicist say?
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
The team has more than 30 members including surgeons, psychologists, a nurse co-ordinator, transplant physicians and an ethicist.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
An ethicist can wind up less limber than the system he developed during his prime.
The Times Literary Supplement (2011)
Perhaps literature provides thought experiments more like those of the ethicist than those of the scientist.
The Times Literary Supplement (2013)
It would not surprise me if some other ethicist somewhere was able to argue persuasively that it was.