zeroist

See also: Zeroist

English

Etymology

zero +‎ -ist

Noun

zeroist (plural zeroists)

1. A proponent of zero population growth (ZPG).
   • 1971, USA: Economics, Politics, Ideology - Issues 7-12, page 114:

     It leads to the assumption that, unable to resolve many social and economic problems affecting today's America, the administration in Washington has in fact clutched at the recommendations of the "zeroists."

   • 1974, Ceres, page 133:

     But, whereas failure to follow the indications of the “zeroists " will later on have unpleasant consequences for these nations, inability to check population growth in many parts of the developing world may mean that the countries concerned are doomed to sink, irreversibly and in the near future, into an ever-deepening miasma of economic and social stagnation.

2. (art) An artist who is part of the movement called zeroism; An artist whose works have no message or meaning.
   • 1929, Printers' Ink - Volume 147, page 154:

     Let us admit at once that the author has made out a case against the zeroist who uses words as a squid uses its color-sac — to becloud vision.

   • 1975, Christine Brooke-Rose, Thru, page 155:

     What are you talking about Ali this is the text we are creating it verbally we are the text we do not exist either we are a pack of lies dreamt up by the unreliable narrator in love with the zeroist author in love with himself but absent in the nature of things, an etherised unauthorised other.

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