different between theoretician vs theosophist

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theoretician (plural theoreticians)

someone who is expert in the theory of a particular science or art
a theorist
- “They have numerically confirmed, perhaps for the first time, something we were fairly sure had to be true, but was still a conjecture — namely that the thermodynamics of certain black holes can be reproduced from a lower-dimensional universe,” says Leonard Susskind, a theoretical physicist at Stanford University in California who was among the first theoreticians to explore the idea of holographic universes.

From theosophy +? -ist.

theosophist (plural theosophists)

an advocate of, or believer in theosophy.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:theosophist.

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