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defaultist

The English word “defaultist” has 2 meanings listed here.

adjective

  1. Of or relating to defaultism.

noun

  1. One who believes that scalar implicatures arise from a default association with a word, rather than arising from contextual inference.

Etymology

From default + -ist.

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