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naturalist noun & adjective. L16.
[from NATURAL adjective + -IST, partly after French naturaliste.]
A. noun.
A person who studies natural, as opp. to supernatural or spiritual, things; a person who believes that only natural laws and forces operate in the world; an adherent of philosophical naturalism. L16.
b. A person who follows the light of nature, as opp. to revelation. E17.
Orig., an expert in or student of natural science; a natural philosopher, a physicist. Now spec. an expert in or student of natural history; a zoologist or botanist (freq. an amateur) concerned with observation rather than experiment. L16.
A person who aims at close adherence to and faithful representation of nature or reality in art, literature, etc.; an adherent of artistic naturalism. L18.
b. adjective. Of or pertaining to naturalism or naturalists; naturalistic. M19.