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From a- +‎ Santa +‎ -ist, based on atheist.

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asantaist (plural asantaists)

  1. (rare, humorous) A person who does not believe in Santa Claus.
    • 2016 January 30, Nicholas Bittner, The Roads Around Religion[1], Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 11:
      Nearly everyone but small children are asantaists, while the same is true of aunicornists — even if they have never once decided as an absolute fact, or even as a matter of faith, that unicorns do not exist.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:asantaist.

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  • Generally used in analogies to atheists and atheism.

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