conspiracist
English
editEtymology
editFrom conspiracy + -ist.
Noun
editconspiracist (plural conspiracists)
- A person who puts forward a conspiracy theory.
- Synonym: conspiracy theorist
- 2020, Marcus Gilroy-Ware, After the Fact?, Repeater, →ISBN:
- As this business model developed, InfoWars’ shows, hosted by an array of conspiracists alongside [Alex] Jones, such as British conspiracist Paul Joseph Watson, became increasingly punctuated by ad breaks and product placement, in a way that one journalist described as like “the QVC for racist uncles” (Lamoureux, 2017).
Adjective
editconspiracist (comparative more conspiracist, superlative most conspiracist)
- Related to conspiracy theories.
- 2020, Marcus Gilroy-Ware, After the Fact?, Repeater, →ISBN:
- The conspiracist worldview that presumes a wholly designed universe is similar, and with a conspiracy theory, the holder of the belief in some ways imagines themselves as the detective or investigator, […]
Further reading
edit- “conspiracist”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “conspiracist”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.