esotericism
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English
Etymology
Noun
esotericism (countable and uncountable, plural esotericisms)
- The tendency to promote or desire the esoteric.
- 2002, Dave Hill, Marxism Against Postmodernism in Educational Theory, page 257:
- Derridean "messianicity without messianism" that marks so much of post-modernist educational theorizing today, and that makes use of esotericism, sigetics, acroamatics, proleptics, and illocutionary and perlocutionary acts in the disguise of a new pedagogy of the unknowable, wasn't the answer ten years ago.
- Doctrines or practices of esoteric knowledge.
Translations
tendency
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doctrines or practices
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See also
References
- OED2