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# How to pronounce "expressivist" in English

## Pronunciation & Phonetics

- **IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet)**: `/ɛksprɛssɪvɪst/`
- **Syllable Breakdown**: **ex·pres·si·vist**
- **Parts of Speech**: adjective, noun
- **ADJECTIVE**: Pertaining to or advocating expressivism, the doctrine that the primary function of moral sentences and sensation sentences (like "I am in pain") is to express an evaluative attitude, rather than stating a fact
  - *Example*: "Since cognitivism is already a commitment of SEN, I see no harm in assuming it so long as we keep in mind that one possible lesson of MTE is that the content of moral predicates is [primarily] non-cognitive or expressivist."
- **NOUN**: An advocate of expressivism

## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (1 Video Clips)

Listen to native speakers pronounce "expressivist" in real conversation:

### Example 1
> "or their capacity to determine how their lives go, to make free choices. And that it expresses a kind of hostile or harmful attitude towards people with disability, and that's the so-called expressivist argument. And I'm not really going to touch on any of those in any detail today. I'm going to focus on the fourth of the distinctive disability critiques, which is that prenatal selection is in fact eugenic. Now, if you've been"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 14:34](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-kJqNzaXxw&t=874s)


## Frequently Asked Questions

### How do you pronounce "expressivist" correctly?
"expressivist" is pronounced `/ɛksprɛssɪvɪst/`. Syllable breakdown: **ex·pres·si·vist**.

### What does "expressivist" mean in context?
Pertaining to or advocating expressivism, the doctrine that the primary function of moral sentences and sensation sentences (like "I am in pain") is to express an evaluative attitude, rather than stating a fact

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