punctuationist

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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noun

"Since most of the life of a species, on the punctuationist view, is spent in unchanging stasis, and since a species has a discrete beginning and end, it follows that, to a punctuationist, a species can be said to have a definite, measurable ‘life span’."

Etymology tree English punctuation Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English punctuationist From punctuation + -ist.

punctuationists (plural)

gradualist saltationist

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What does punctuationist mean?

In evolutionary biology, one who believes in punctuationism.

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