A person who studies, collects, or is deeply interested in gnomes; someone who writes or speaks in gnomic sayings.
From 'gnome' or 'gnomic' plus the agent suffix '-ist' (from Greek, meaning 'one who does or practices'). The term can refer to either mythological scholars or students of aphoristic wisdom literature.
A 'gnomist' could be either a serious scholar studying ancient wisdom literature or someone with a lawn full of ceramic beards—English lets you use the same word for both, which is delightfully ambiguous.
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