different between stylistics vs stylist

English

Noun

stylistics (uncountable)

1. (linguistics) The study of literary style, and how it changes within different contexts.

Translations

English

Etymology

From style +? -ist.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sta?l?st/

Noun

stylist (plural stylists)

1. Designer.
2. Hairdresser.
3. A writer or speaker distinguished for excellence or individuality of style; one who cultivates, or is a master or critic of, literary style.
4. An artist who has a particular distinctive style.
   • 2003, Jack Shadoian, Dreams and Dead Ends: The American Gangster Film (page 196)

     A plain, seemingly graceless stylist, his rather unpalatable movies, full of rabid, sloggingly orchestrated physical pain and psychic damage, picture crime as a monstrous, miasmal evil, divesting it of any glamour it ever had.

Derived terms

• hair stylist
• food stylist

Related terms

• stylistics

Translations

Further reading

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

Swedish

Alternative forms

• stajlist

Noun

stylist c

1. a stylist

Declension

References

• stylist in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)