connectionist
noun, adjective
connectionist is a noun meaning “An advocate of connectionism” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-O-N-N-E-C-T-I-O-N-I-S-T, and it appears about once in every 28 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of connectionist is connectionists.
What does connectionist mean?
noun
- 1
An advocate of connectionism.
adjective
- 1
Of or relating to connectionism.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of connectionist
- connectionists plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is connectionist?
Connectionist appears about once in every 28 million words in written English, the 159,707th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Connectionist in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Translations:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | connexionniste |
| German | konnektionistisch |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does connectionist come from?
From connection + -ist.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).