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单词 energeticist
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energeticistn.adj.

Brit. /ˌɛnəˈdʒɛtᵻsɪst/, U.S. /ˌɛnərˈdʒɛdəsəst/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: energetic adj., -ist suffix.
Etymology: < energetic adj. + -ist suffix.In senses A. 1 and A. 2 after German Energetiker (1896 or earlier in sense A. 2; 1908 (in the passage translated in quot. 1909) in sense A. 1); compare earlier energism n. 1. With sense A. 2 compare slightly earlier energeticism n., and also energism n. 2. In sense A. 3 after energetics n. 1a. In use as adjective after energetics n. and energeticism n.
A. n.
1. Philosophy. Apparently: a person who believes that action, work, the exercise of power, etc., are the main or only guiding principles of life. Cf. energism n. 1. Obsolete. rare.
ΚΠ
1909 P. Carus tr. L. Stein in Monist 19 143 The voluntarist James should..enlist himself in the ranks of the great voluntarists and energeticists [Ger. Energetiker] from the Scotists to Fichte's ‘being springs from doing’, and Nietzsche's ‘will for power’.
2. Originally and chiefly Physics. An advocate or proponent of the view that energy is the fundamental element in all physical change, and is (esp. as opposed to atomic particles) the basic constituent of matter. Cf. energeticism n. 2. Now historical.
ΚΠ
1911 T. P. Nunn in Proc. Aristotelian Soc. 1911–12 (1912) 12 45 The modern energeticists content themselves with measuring the bare facts of sensible phenomena.
1969 Isis 60 330 Boltzmann defied the energeticists and championed the inalienable rights of atomism.
1998 W. R. Everdell First Moderns xv. 229 Einstein's..adviser in the..physics department, Heinrich Weber, had been something of an energeticist.
2001 Nature 4 Jan. 18/2 By this time [i.e. 1906], all but the most diehard of the ‘energeticists’ had accepted the reality of atoms.
3. An expert or specialist in energetics (energetics n. 1a); a person who studies or investigates energy or energy usage (in various contexts). Somewhat rare.Frequently with modifying word, as ecological energeticist, fuel energeticist, etc.
ΚΠ
1958 Phi Delta Kappan 39 305/2 The impact of the space age on education... Already a new terminology is developing and such terms as fuel energeticist, astrophysicist, and rocketeer are becoming common.
1996 J. J. Watson & I. G. Priede tr. A. Lucas Bioenergetics of Aquatic Animals vii. 145 The International Biological Programme..encouraged energetic analyses of ecosystems... This programme has given rise to the emergence of ecological energeticists in numerous countries.
2005 F. Niele Energy v. 71 For an energeticist its [sc. the steam engine's] invention..marks an earth-shaking event: it was the first device enabling heat to be converted into mechanical work.
B. adj.
Of or relating to energetics or energeticism; esp. relating to or advocating the view that changes in energy form the basis of all physical phenomena (now historical).
ΚΠ
1917 Philos. Rev. 26 444 There have been four great types of philosophical theory of reality... They are, mechanism or atomism, the energeticist theory, philosophical realism, and mathematical idealism.
1951 H. A. Larrabee tr. C. L. Mayer Man i. 4 A philosophy of materialism ought to be neither mechanist nor energeticist.
1994 P. L. Baker Centring Periphery i. 8 The energeticist approach..has, generally, disregarded the ‘dark side’ of energy exchange.
2006 AIP Conf. Proc. 861 1148 One can either understand the universe according to the atomist paradigm, or according to the energeticist paradigm.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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