Home › Words › A › animalculistanimalculist/anɪˈmalkjʊlɪst/animalculist means pertaining to animalculism.animalculist is pronounced /anɪˈmalkjʊlɪst/.EtymologyFrom animalcule + -ist.adjPertaining to animalculism.e.g.“Countering ‘ovism’, the rival ‘animalculist’ school regarded spermatozoa, discovered in semen by Leeuwenhoek, as the true source of conception.” — 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 217:nounA believer in the theory that the embryo exists preformed within the spermatozoon; a proponent of animalculism.Someone who studies animalcules.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.animalculistic 90% match — Relating to the theory of animalculism. vs animalculist →animalculous 86% match — Relating to animalcules. vs animalculist →animalculine 85% match — Of, relating to, or resembling animalcules. vs animalculist →animalculism 84% match — A theory seeking to explain certain physiological and pathological phenomena in terms of animalcules. vs animalculist →animalculum 80% match — Synonym of animalcule. vs animalculist →animalcular 76% match — Of, relating to, or resembling animalcules. vs animalculist →microanimal 72% match — A microscopic animal; an animalcule. vs animalculist →animalcule 64% match — A sperm cell or spermatozoon; also, the embryo that was formerly thought to be contained inside a spermatozoon in a fully developed state. vs animalculist →