idealogue
nounEtymology Compare French idéologue.
1
One given to fanciful ideas or theories; someone who theorizes or speculates.
- Government, If veritable and lawful, is not given By imposition of the foreign hand, Nor chosen from a pretty pattern-book Of some domestic idealogue who sits And coldly chooses empire, where as well He might republic.1856, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Eighth Book”, in Aurora Leigh, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1857, →OCLC:
2
Someone who espouses a particular ideology, particularly a political one.
- Related terms
- ideologue