asantaist

English

Alternative forms

• a-Santa-ist

Etymology

From a- +‎ Santa +‎ -ist, based on atheist.

Noun

asantaist (plural asantaists)

1. (rare, humorous) A person who does not believe in Santa Claus.
   • 2016 January 30, Nicholas Bittner, The Roads Around Religion‎^[1], Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 11:

     Nearly everyone but small children are asantaists, while the same is true of aunicornists — even if they have never once decided as an absolute fact, or even as a matter of faith, that unicorns do not exist.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:asantaist.

Usage notes

• Generally used in analogies to atheists and atheism.

Hypernyms

• nonbeliever

Coordinate terms

• adragonist
• afairyist
• aleprechaunist
• atoothfairyist
• aunicornist