Definitions for obscurantism

obscurantism ob·scu·rant·ism

Spelling: [uh b-skyoo r-uh n-tiz-uh
IPA: /əbˈskyʊər ənˌtɪz əm, ˌɒb skyʊˈræn tɪz əm/

Obscurantism is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 23 points.

You can make 2118 anagrams from letters in obscurantism (abcimnorsstu).

Definitions for obscurantism

noun

  1. opposition to the increase and spread of knowledge.
  2. deliberate obscurity or evasion of clarity.

Origin of obscurantism

1825-35; French obscurantisme; see obscurant, -ism

Examples for obscurantism

In Germany, as elsewhere, the victory of the Papacy was the victory of obscurantism.

As they were only talking to themselves, obscurantism increased on a par with poverty and its ills.

In a certain sense every form of responsibility is obscurantism.

Deist or Gallican, he was a confirmed enemy of obscurantism in all its forms.

It is not only theologians who have, in the history of thought, been guilty of obscurantism.

obscurantism is better than the light of incendiary torches.

For simply differing from the obscurantism of his age, and having opinions of his own.

In the East the harem is, as Vambéry well says, the "bulwark of obscurantism."

Likewise there is nothing of obscurantism or affected mysticism about it.

Its greatest crime was obscurantism, which was war on knowledge and civilization.

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