Home › Words › M › miscellanistmiscellanistmiscellanist · adj — having the characteristics of a miscellany.Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).EtymologyFrom miscellany + -ist.adjHaving the characteristics of a miscellany.e.g.“Punjab Notes and Queries […] was ethnographic and miscellanist in nature, but its organization was confused.” — 2002, Sadhana Naithani, “To Tell a Tale Untold: Two Folklorists in Colonial India”, in Journal of Folklore Research, vol. 39, no. 2/3, p. 205:nounAn author or editor of one or more miscellanies; one who produces written works having a wide range of forms or kinds of content.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).