English - Turkish
Definition of obscurantism in English Turkish dictionary
- Bilmesinlercilik
- Obskürantizm
- bilgisizlik taraftarlığı
- örümcek kafalılık
- gericilik
- Bağnazlık, gericilik, taassup
- bilgisizlik yanlılık
- (isim) gericilik
- obscurantist
- (isim) gerici
- obscurantist
- {i} gerici
- obscurantist
- cehalet yanlısı
- obscurantist
- cahil bırakma yanlısı
- obscurantist
- halkı cahil bırakma yanlı
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English - English
Definition of obscurantism in English English dictionary
- Being deliberately obscure or vague
- A state of opposition to human progress or enlightenment
- The practice of deliberately preventing the facts or full details of something from becoming known:
- The system or the principles of the obscurants
- {i} resistance to progress (political and/or social) and the spread of knowledge; deliberate creation of obscurity
- a deliberate act intended to make something obscure a policy of opposition to enlightenment or the spread of knowledge
- Obscurantism is the practice or policy of deliberately making something vague and difficult to understand, especially in order to prevent people from finding out the truth. legalistic obscurantism. the practice of deliberately stopping ideas and facts from being known
- a policy of opposition to enlightenment or the spread of knowledge
- a deliberate act intended to make something obscure
- obscurantist
- A practitioner of obscurantism; an obscurant
- obscurantist
- One who writes in a vague or obscure manner
- obscurantist
- {i} one who opposes intellectual advancement and political (or social) reform; one who deliberately causes obscurity
- obscurantist
- a person who is deliberately vague
- obscurantist
- A follower of obscurantism; an obscurant
- obscurantist
- Same as Obscurant
- obscurantist
- If you describe something as obscurantist, you mean that it is deliberately vague and difficult to understand, so that it prevents people from finding out the truth about it. I think that a lot of poetry published today is obscurantist nonsense
Related Terms
obscurantism
Hyphenation
ob·scu·ran·ti·smPronunciation
Etymology
() From Latin obscűrans, present participle of obscűro (“cover, darken, obscure”) + -ismResimler
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