geocentrist
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or pertaining to geocentrism, the false belief the Sun revolves around the Earth.
noun
A supporter of geocentrism, the false belief that the Sun revolves around the Earth.
Example Sentences
- "What about geocentrist Christians?"
- "[Title:] Are Republicans Necessarily Geocentrist?"
- "The quintessential example of religious faith stopping science is Galileo Galilei’s house arrest by the Roman Catholic Inquisition when he began supporting heliocentrism (the Earth revolves around the sun) instead of the geocentrist views supported by the church (the sun revolves around the Earth)."
- "The intense hostility expressed by the scientific creationists toward the flat-earthers does not extend to the geocentrists, who hover on the edge of respectability among scientific creationists."
- "When a geocentrist says "planet" and a heliocentrist says "planet," the context is so different as to render them unable even to communicate with each other."
- "[W]hile Aristotle (d. 322 BCE) rejected most of the prevailing narrative-based beliefs of his fellow Greeks (e.g., the Olympian deities), he was nevertheless a geocentrist who argued that the stationary Earth was surrounded by celestial spheres in an eternal but finite universe consisting of five elements created by a great deity, the Prime Mover"
Etymology
geocentric + -ist.