exponent vs apologist

apologist vs exponent

exponent and apologist both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
exponent	Yes	No	No	No
apologist	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, apologist is a hyponym of exponent; that is, apologist is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than exponent:

exponent: a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea
apologist: a person who argues to defend or justify some policy or institution

Other hyponyms of exponent include justifier, vindicator, commie, communist, constitutionalist, Darwinian, democrat, populist, fascist, federalist, Gnostic, humanist, humanitarian, ideologist, ideologue, internationalist, irredentist, irridentist, isolationist, Jansenist, libertarian, Maoist, Marxist, nationalist, neoclassicist, neutralist, nullifier, drumbeater, partisan, zealot, partitionist, Platonist, pro-lifer, presenter, sponsor, protectionist, republican, ritualist, ruralist, secessionist, secularist, separationist, separatist, interpreter, representative, spokesperson, voice, suffragist, admirer, booster, champion, friend, protagonist, supporter, supremacist, teleologist, Thatcherite, unilateralist, voice in the wilderness.

exponent (noun)	apologist (noun)
a mathematical notation indicating the number of times a quantity is multiplied by itself	a person who argues to defend or justify some policy or institution
a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea
someone who expounds and interprets or explains

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