different between apologia vs apologist

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ???????? (apología, “speech in defense of a position”). Doublet of apology.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?æp.??lo?.d?i.?/

Noun

apologia (plural apologias or apologiae)

1. A written defense of a position or belief.
   • Although I've enumerated some of the academic traditions and debates that have animated this book, it is not my purpose to offer a full apologia in these brief pages. - 1999 Preface from "Gender Trouble" by Judith Butler

Synonyms

• apology
• apologism

Translations

Finnish

Noun

apologia

1. apologia

Declension

Indonesian

Etymology

From Latin apologia (“apology”), from Ancient Greek ???????? (apología, “a speech made in defense of something”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /apolo?ia/
• Hyphenation: apo?lo?gia

Noun

apologia

1. confession, disclosure of one's sins
2. (Catholicism) apology (formal justification, defence)

Related terms

Further reading

• “apologia” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Etymology

Ancient Greek +? -logia

Noun

apologia f (plural apologie)

1. apology, apologia

Related terms

• apologetico
• apologista

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????? (apologí?, "a speech made in defense of something").

Noun

apologia f (genitive apologiae); first declension

1. a defense, apology

Declension

First-declension noun.

References

1. apologia in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Portuguese

Noun

apologia f (plural apologias)

1. apology (formal justification, defence)

English

Etymology

apology +? -ist. From French apologiste.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??p?l.?.d??st/

Noun

apologist (plural apologists)

1. One who makes an apology.
2. One who speaks or writes in defense of a faith, a cause, or an institution.
   • 15 October 2019, Aleksandar Hemon, "‘The Bob Dylan of Genocide Apologists’" in The New York Times

     A genocide denier is an apologist for the next genocide.

Synonyms

• (one who makes an apology): apologizer, apologiser

Related terms

• apologetic
• apologetics
• apologeticism
• apologia
• apologize, apologise
• apologizer, apologiser
• apology

Translations

References

• apologist in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.