essentialist
noun, adjective
essentialist is a noun meaning “An advocate of essentialism” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled E-S-S-E-N-T-I-A-L-I-S-T, and it appears about once in every 9 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of essentialist is essentialists.
What does essentialist mean?
noun
- 1
An advocate of essentialism.
adjective
- 1
Of or pertaining to essentialism.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of essentialist
- essentialists plural
- more essentialist comparative
- most essentialist superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is essentialist?
Essentialist appears about once in every 9 million words in written English, the 91,522nd 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).
Essentialist in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense an advocate of essentialism:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | essentialiste |
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.