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obscurantist en · ADJ
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English obscurant
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English obscurantist
From obscurant + -ist.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Of or relating to obscurantism.
Synonyms
obscurantistic
Translations (4)
pl obskurancki (Translations) · fi obskurantistinen (Translations) · ro obscurantist (Translations) · de obskurantistisch (Translations)
obscurantist en · NOUN
Etymology
Etymology tree
English obscurant
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English obscurantist
From obscurant + -ist.
Meanings
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A practitioner of obscurantism; an obscurant.
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.
1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 180:Aeschylus is not of design an obscurantist, but […] he distorts or omits facts.
1924, Herbert Weir Smyth, “III. The Persians”, in Aeschylean Tragedy, page 84:Muzzling Kelly also elevates a semi-professional obscurantist to the status of free speech martyr, and that invites a cacophonous pile-on from the rightwing bobble heads who screech about the left’s obsession with identity politics while shovelling identity politics at their audiences.
2021 February 2, Katharine Murphy, The Guardian:
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obscurantistic