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English
Etymology
From non- + supernaturalist.
Noun
nonsupernaturalist (plural nonsupernaturalists)
- Someone who does not believe in the supernatural.
1988 November 4, Bill Wyman, “Do You Believe in Magic?”, in Chicago Reader:For those who did believe in God, "there were the supernaturalists, and the nonsupernaturalists, which is to say those who thought that we can perfectly well deal with god languages, god talk, in ways that don't have to refer to a spirit being out there.
2011, Robert H. Stein, A Basic Guide to Interpreting the Bible: Playing by the Rules, →ISBN, page 155:On the contrary, one thing that seemed reasonably clear to supernaturalists and nonsupernaturalists alike was that the biblical authors truly believed the facticity of what they were reporting.
2011, Catherine Wessinger, The Oxford Handbook of Millennialism, →ISBN, page 651:The degree to which nonsupernaturalists and Neopagans may also legitimately be considered millennialist is less clear.
Synonyms
- bright (“person with a naturalistic worldview with no supernatural elements”)