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Does this sentence make sense?"I'm an adherent of slow living."------------------------THANK YOU.

CalifJim · Accepted Answer

Christine ChristieI'm an adherent of slow living.

Yes, it makes sense. However, that makes "slow living" into a sort of religion, which may or may not be the effect you want.

If you're talking about the "slow movement" which began in the 1980s in Italy, then you may very well want the word 'adherent'.

'adherent' typically occurs in the context of religious beliefs:

Paul became a strong adherent of the new church.
The Yoruba have a balance of members that are adherent to both Islam and Christianity.
He's an adherent of Taoism, a Chinese faith whose followers become attuned to the flow of change.

But 'adherent' can also occur in the context of any philosophy, ideology, or theory that the writer wishes to compare to a religion in importance:

An adherent of the newfangled Darwinism, Von Koren respects animals more than his fellow man.
An adherent of the New Left in the 1960s and 1970s, Windschuttle later moved to the right.
Some have criticized Coolidge as an adherent of the laissez-faire ideology, which they claim led to the Great Depression.

CJ

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