Antinatalist

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A supporter of antinatalism.

    "They've identified a reference to the ancient Syracusian practice of banishment known as petalism, and what may or may not be a reference to efilism, a branch of the antinatalist philosophical position advanced by Schopenhauer, but what any of that has to do with the lyrics' subsequent allusions to Moby-Dick seems pretty open to question."

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"Tom is an antinatalist; he believes it is immoral to bring children into this world, for living entails suffering."

Etymology

From anti- + natalist.

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