philosophunculist

== English == === Etymology === From philosophuncule +‎ -ist. === Pronunciation === (UK) IPA(key): /fɪˌlɒsəˈfʌŋkjʊlɪst/ === Noun === philosophunculist (plural philosophunculists) (rare) A minor or insignificant philosopher; someone who claims philosophical expertise that they do not possess. [from 19th c.] 1991, Edward W Tayler, Donne's Idea of a Woman, p. 156 n. 7: Cunningham's brilliant explication of ‘glassie Essence’ and related matters first appeared in ELH, 19 (1952), see esp. p. 266, but has been ignored by those whom Robert Burton would call the philosophunculists of the academy as well as by most students of Shakespeare.