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Obscurantism

noun
1.
A policy of opposition to enlightenment or the spread of knowledge.
2.
A deliberate act intended to make something obscure.





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"Obscurantism" Quotes from Famous Books



... destroying. It must be capable of destroying what is in the way of further creation. Thus the true opposite of creation is not destruction, but the inert, heavy, thick, callous, brutal, insensitive "obscurantism" or "material opacity" which resists the ...
— The Complex Vision • John Cowper Powys


Words linked to "Obscurantism" :   obscurantist, policy, dissembling, deception, deceit, dissimulation


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