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nonfanatic

adj

Etymology

From non- + fanatic.

  1. learned borrowing from fānāticus — “of a temple, divinely inspired, frenzied”
  2. prefixed as nonfanatic — “non + fanatic”

Definitions

  1. Not fanatic

    Not fanatic; reasonable or moderate.

    • However we might reach the conclusion, most of us would agree that both fanatic and nonfanatic Nazis are morally depraved.
    • We have tacitly assumed that there is in sober fact no real contradiction between science as such and the social and political goals (in their nonfanatic forms) of the various oppositional movements we have studied.

  2. One who is not a fanatic.

    • He does not precisely indicate how one distinguishes the fanatic from the nonfanatic.
    • ...but he is an important weapon in the hands of the determined nonfanatic — one who intends to live for the cause, in other words.
    • As every udon fanatic (and even nonfanatic) in Japan knows, Takamatsu sits smack in the center of the Sanuki universe.

The neighborhood

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