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Obscurantism

noun

A policy of opposition to enlightenment or the spread of knowledge.

A deliberate act intended to make something obscure.

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"Obscurantism" Quotes from Famous Books

... country banker, and who now is sunk into fatuous senility. I hardly know whether I dare trust myself to speak of Robb, for I confess that he has become to me an abstraction rather than a human being—an embodiment of all the vicious routine, the foul obscurantism, the stupid prejudice, which an enlightened Liberalism has to struggle against. There he sits, a satire on our parliamentary system. He can't put together three sentences; he never in his life had an idea. The man is a mere money-sack, propped up by toadies and imbeciles. Has any other borough such ...

— Our Friend the Charlatan • George Gissing

... incalculable debt to art and poetry and philosophy and therefore to the Greeks, have inevitably found this attitude a stumbling-block. And they will always read with exceptional surprise and indignation the narrow obscurantism of the speech which Milton, scholar and artist as he was, is not ashamed to put into the mouth of Christ in the fourth book. He cannot himself have been a victim of the shallow fallacy expressed in line 325 (he who reads ...

— Milton • John Bailey

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