proponent vs secularist

secularist vs proponent

proponent and secularist both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
proponent	Yes	No	No	No
secularist	Yes	No	No	No

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

proponent: a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea
secularist: an advocate of secularism; someone who believes that religion should be excluded from government and education

Other hyponyms of proponent include apologist, 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, separationist, separatist, interpreter, representative, spokesperson, voice, suffragist, admirer, booster, champion, friend, protagonist, supporter, supremacist, teleologist, Thatcherite, unilateralist, voice in the wilderness.

proponent (noun)	secularist (noun)
a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea	an advocate of secularism; someone who believes that religion should be excluded from government and education

Difference between proponent and secularist

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