Explorationist
/ˌɛk.spləˈreɪ.ʃən.ɪst/noun
A person who advocates or practices exploration, especially as a field of interest or profession.
Did you know?Unlike words with a deep classical history, *explorationist* is a modern formation built from *exploration* plus the agentive suffix *-ist*, so its power comes from style and ideology, not an old occult root.
Etymological Timeline
Latin
Latin
explorare
“to search out, investigate, scout”
Late Latin
Latin
exploratio
“a searching out, investigation”
Old French
Old French
exploration
“an act of exploring”
17th–19th Century
English
exploration
“the act of traveling through an unknown place to learn about it”
19th–20th Century
English
explorationist
“a person devoted to exploration or exploration as a principle or profession”