different between controversialist vs polemic

English

Etymology

controversial +? -ist

Noun

controversialist (plural controversialists)

1. One who regularly engages in public controversies.

   Richard Dawkins has become a leading controversialist in a few areas.

   • 1847-1886, James Crossley (editor), notes in The Diary and Correspondence of Dr. John Worthington

     His indefatigable adversary, who is the perfect model of an agile controversialist, had attacked him as a magniloquent Thraso, on account of his Pansophical promises.

Translations

English

Alternative forms

• polemick (obsolete)

Etymology

From French polémique, from Ancient Greek ????????? (polemikós, “of war”), from ??????? (pólemos, “war”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??l?m?k/
• Rhymes: -?m?k

Noun

polemic (plural polemics)

1. A person who writes in support of one opinion, doctrine, or system, in opposition to another; one skilled in polemics; a controversialist; a disputant.
2. An argument or controversy.
4. A strong verbal or written attack on someone or something.

Synonyms

• (person): controversialist, disputant, polemicist
• (strong verbal or written attack): harangue, screed, rant, tirade, philippic

Derived terms

• polemical
• polemically
• polemicist

Translations

Adjective

polemic (comparative more polemic, superlative most polemic)

1. Having the characteristics of a polemic.

Synonyms

• polemical

Translations

Further reading

• polemic in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• polemic in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• compile

Romanian

Etymology

From French polémique.

Adjective

polemic m or n (feminine singular polemic?, masculine plural polemici, feminine and neuter plural polemice)

1. polemic

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