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English
Etymology
obscurant + -ist
Noun
obscurantist (plural obscurantists)
- A practitioner of obscurantism; an obscurant.
1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 180: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.
2021 February 2, Katharine Murphy, The Guardian: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.
Derived terms
Adjective
obscurantist (not comparable)
- Of or relating to obscurantism.
- Synonym: obscurantistic
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Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French obscurantiste.
Noun
obscurantist m (plural obscutantiști)
- obscurantist
Declension
Declension of obscurantist