# supernaturalist

Pronunciation: US say "soo-per-NACH-er-uh-list" /ˌsupɚˈnætʃəɹəlɪst/; UK say "soo-puh-NACH-er-uh-list" /ˌsuːpəˈnætʃəɹəlɪst/

## Noun

1. A person who believes in the existence of forces or beings beyond the laws of nature.
   - Simple: Someone who believes that powers or beings exist beyond the natural world.
   - _Every committed supernaturalist holds that some events have causes outside the physical world._
   - _Many supernaturalists argue that miracles cannot be explained by science alone._
2. A person who promotes supernaturalism, the view that natural laws alone cannot explain reality.
   - Simple: Someone who supports and argues for the idea that supernatural forces are real.
   - _A leading supernaturalist defended the reality of miracles in his lectures._
   - _The supernaturalists challenged the assumption that nature operates by fixed laws alone._

## Origin

Formed from "supernatural" combined with the suffix "-ist".

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/supernaturalist (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).