attitudinizer

English

Etymology

attitudinize +‎ -er

Noun

attitudinizer (plural attitudinizers)

  1. One who attitudinizes, or practises poses.
    • 1976, Saul Bellow, To Jerusalem and Back, New York: Viking Press, page 112:
      Alsop is a violent attitudinizer, and one of the attitudes he strikes is that of the patrician American, a vanishing breed.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “attitudinizer”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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