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obscurantist

noun

Etymology

From obscurant + -ist.

  1. derived from obscurant
  2. derived from Obskurant
  3. suffixed as obscurantist — “obscurant + ist”

Definitions

  1. A practitioner of obscurantism

    A practitioner of obscurantism; an obscurant.

    • Aeschylus is not of design an obscurantist, but […] he distorts or omits facts.
    • The ego thinks that his local time and space is all there is to reality, and that the busy affairs of state and trade are more important than a lot of obscurantist hocus-pocus.

  2. Of or relating to obscurantism.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA