Synonyms for layman
ˈleɪ mənlay·man

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1. laymannoun

   Antonyms:
   specialist, expert, professional

2. laymannoun

   Antonyms:
   professional, specialist, expert

3. laymannoun

   Antonyms:
   expert, professional, specialist

4. laymannoun

   Antonyms:
   expert, specialist, professional

5. laymannoun

   Antonyms:
   professional, specialist, expert

6. laymannoun

   Antonyms:
   professional, expert, specialist

7. laymannoun

   Antonyms:
   expert, professional, specialist

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1. layman, layperson, secularnoun

   someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person

   Synonyms:
   secular, layperson

   Antonyms:
   man of the cloth, clergyman, reverend

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1. List of paraphrases for "layman":

   layperson, secular

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1. Fengshi Asset Management Liu:

   It's a gamble. And you're betting against professional institutions, not layman retail investors, this game is very demanding in your ability to identify and assess risks.

2. Janice Chou:

   You get clear feedback in layman's terms and insight into the nutritional value of what you're eating. The information you receive from MyFitnessPal is great— they present your caloric breakdown in an easy-to-understand pie chart— but you don't always understand what it all means.

3. Kai Tarkianen:

   ( It's) a layman's sport, anybody with a license can come up.

4. Sigmund Freud:

   The expectation that every neurotic phenomenon can be cured may, I suspect, be derived from the layman's belief that the neuroses are something quite unnecessary which have no right whatever to exist. Whereas in fact they are severe, constitutionally fixed illnesses, which rarely restrict themselves to only a few attacks but persist as a rule over long periods throughout life.

5. Author Unknown:

   A patient going to a doctor for his first visit was asked, "And whom did you consult before coming to me?""Only the village druggist," was the answer."And what sort of foolish advice did that numbskull give you?" asked the doctor, his tone and manner denoting his contempt for the advice of the layman."Oh," replied his patient, with no malice aforethought, "he told me to come and see you."