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Positivistic

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Positivistic

Compared: "Positivistic" and "positivist" share the core meaning in the sense of "of or relating to positivism", but they differ in register and emphasis. "Positivistic" is the safer all-purpose choice; "positivist" often implies a more specific shade of meaning.

Tone: "Positivistic" sits comfortably in both formal and informal writing. There are no strong register constraints; choose it when it fits the meaning rather than for stylistic effect.

Synonyms for "positivistic" (93 found)

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Closest matches (19)

animist animistic atomistic bigoted commonsense conceited cosmotheistic cyrenaic doctrinaire doctrinarian dogmatic dogmatizingdown-to-earthearthy eclectic eleatic empirical epicurean eudaemonistic

Strong matches (28)

existential hardheaded hedonic hedonist hedonistic humanist humanistic hylomorphous hylotheistic idealistic instrumentalist marxian marxist materialist materialisticmatter-of-factmechanist mechanistic megarian metaphysical

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monistic naturalist naturalistic nominalist opinionated opinionative opinioned oracular

Related words (46)

panlogistical pantheistic peremptory pontifical positive positivist practical practical-minded pragmatic pragmatical pragmatist pronunciative rational rationalistic realist realistic reasonable sane scholastic scientific

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scientistic secular self-opinionated self-opinioned sensationalistic sensible sober-minded sound sound-thinking stoic straight-thinking syncretistic theistic transcendentalist transcendentalistic unideal unidealistic unromantic unsentimental utilitarian vitalistic voluntarist voluntaristic worldly

Adjective(2 words)

positive positivist

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