obscurantism

Meaning

  1. (countable, uncountable) A state of opposition to human progress or enlightenment.
  2. (countable, uncountable) Deliberate obscurity or vagueness.

Translations

σκοταδισμός

obscurantisme

obscurantismo

Obscurantismo

Spießbürgertum

Etymology

From Latin obscūrans, from obscūrō (“to cover, darken, obscure”) + -ism.

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