safetyist

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noun

A proponent of safetyism; someone obsessed with safety.

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Meanings

nounsafetyist (plural safetyists)

plural safetyists

  1. A proponent of safetyism; someone obsessed with safety.

    In a conversation with another safetyist, a classic satirical headline came up: “Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made a Great Point.”

    2024 March 18, Andrew Marantz, “О.К., Doomer”, in The New Yorker, page 45
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    […] First, from our nascent class of celebrity safetyists, we’re told mankind’s technological destruction is certain unless we halt interrogation and development of every field from synthetic biology to advanced computing, reducing the imagined existential risk of novel technologies to something close to zero.

    2024 February 29, Mike Solana, “Hereticon: Apocalypse Ball”, in Founders Fund

Origin

From safety + -ist.

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APA

safetyist. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/safetyist

MLA

“safetyist.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/safetyist. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “safetyist,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/safetyist.

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