philo-, phil-, -phile, -philia, -philic, -philous, -phily, -philiac, -philist, -philism +

1. An adviser and researcher on matters pertaining to the equitable and environmental implications of wealth creation and distribution with regard to international social justice, human rights, and life support systems.
2. Someone who promotes and encourages local trade and local currency systems and engages in supporting research and development.

1. The administration of a community's sustainable development program.
2. The theory of the sustainable and equitable production and distribution of wealth consistent with providing all of humanity with their basic needs and ensuring that future generations can meet theirs.
3. The measure of a community's internationally accepted targets for social justice, human rights, and sustainability.

1. In biology, exhibiting a tendency to remain in a native locality.
2. A reference to species or groups that show little capacity to spread or to disperse.
3. The tendency of an organism to stay in, or return to, its home area.

1. An irresistible urge to stay home; homesickness.
2. A compulsion to return to one’s native land, as seen in prisoners of war.

1. A shallow philosophical dabbler or poseur (one who assumes an attitude, character, or manner to impress others); a pseudothinker.
2. An amateur or superficial and incompetent philosopher.
3. Someone who pretends to know more than he/she really knows in order to impress others.

A collector of words for collectors (coined by Paul Dickson).

One who is abnormally afraid of falling in love or of being loved.

Resorting to gentle speech or humble submission in order to mitigate, to calm, or to mollify anger.

A person who loves to argue or who is particularly fond of controversy.

Someone who loves or has a special fondness for prostitutes.

1. Procreative, producing offspring; prolific.
2. Loving one’s own offspring or children in general.
3. In psychiatry, manifesting an erotic or abnormal love for children.

A fondness for or attraction to ideas, cultural qualities, etc. that originate with Jews, pro-Jewish; the opposite of antiSemitism.

1. A person who pretends to know more about something than he actually knows as a way of impressing or manipulating others.
2. Someone who claims to be a philosopher, but who actually has only superficial knowledge of the subject.
3. A pseudo-philosopher.

Philosophaster is a Latin satirical comedy by Robert Burton. Since the play is about someone who pretends to be a philosopher, the term itself has been used in more recent times to refer to a pretender to knowledge about philosophy.

1. Of, relating to, or based on a system of philosophy.
2. Characteristic of a philosopher, as in equanimity, enlightenment, and wisdom.

1. To speculate in a philosophical manner.
2. To set forth or express a moralistic, often superficial philosophy.
3. To consider (a matter) from a philosophical standpoint.