foundationalist
noun, adjective
foundationalist is a noun meaning “A supporter of foundationalism, the doctrine that beliefs derive justification from certain basic beliefs” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-O-U-N-D-A-T-I-O-N-A-L-I-S-T, and it appears about once in every 93 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of foundationalist is foundationalists.
What does foundationalist mean?
noun
- 1
A supporter of foundationalism, the doctrine that beliefs derive justification from certain basic beliefs
adjective
- 1
Of or relating to foundationalism.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of foundationalist
- foundationalists plural
- more foundationalist comparative
- most foundationalist superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is foundationalist?
Foundationalist appears about once in every 93 million words in written English, the 309,272nd 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).
Foundationalist in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense a supporter of foundationalism:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | fundacionista, fundacionalista |
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.