Afairyist

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A person who does not believe in fairies. humorous, rare

    "But consider this: your typical atheist does not believe in fairies, goblins, sprites, water nymphs, demons, angels, ghosts or elves either. Why not call him an 'afairyist', or an 'agoblinist', or an 'anymphist', and so endlessly on?"

Example

More examples

"But consider this: your typical atheist does not believe in fairies, goblins, sprites, water nymphs, demons, angels, ghosts or elves either. Why not call him an 'afairyist', or an 'agoblinist', or an 'anymphist', and so endlessly on?"

Etymology

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

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