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metaphysician

metaphysician

9.9
A person who gives spiritual advice and energy healing
  • noun
  • /ˌmɛtəfəˈzɪʃən/
translation icon : espiritualista
  • Many people seek a metaphysician for advice on personal growth and spiritual healing.

Examples

  • The metaphysician guided her clients through meditation to help them find inner peace.

  • I'm all I better not name who, but it's of the current crop of metaphysicians and they have this notion about grounding.

  • As a metaphysician, he explores the connections between mind, body, and spirit.

Synonyms

spiritualist
vsmetaphysician
7 8.2

A person who says they can talk with the spirits of dead people

focuses on guidance and healing rather than communicating with the dead

How Spiritual

metaphysician
9.9
healer
101 3.9
practitioner
120 4.0
enthusiast
81 3.4
layperson
14 4.9

Surface Forms

metaphysician singular

Morphology

metaphysician = metaphysics (semi-transparent) = metaphysics + ian

Morphologically clear but the popular/spiritual/practitioner sense departs from the academic meaning of 'metaphysics', so inference from the base is less reliable for learners.

Etymology

Metaphysician comes from Greek meta- 'beyond' and physika 'the natural things', the same root as physics. A helpful way to remember the modern use is that people who give spiritual guidance or energy healing work with what is 'beyond' the body, so they are sometimes called metaphysicians.