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Obscurantism is the practice of keeping people in the dark on purpose. A government, a church, a company, or even a school hides facts, uses language, or fights against new knowledge so that others cannot see clearly. It is a heavy, formal word. You meet it in essays about , science, and history, not at the dinner table. It is always a criticism. It sits near “anti-intellectual,” though actually it is a bit more specific: it is not only disliking clever talk, it is actively covering things up or making them harder to know.
蒙昧主義(書面、政論用詞;日常會說「故意不讓人知道」)
組成From Latin obscūrō (“to cover, darken, obscure”) + -ism (a practice or belief).
同家族的字
- obscuresame Latin root: to darken or make unclear
- obscurantista person who practises obscurantism, or the matching adjective
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
obscurantismnoun
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A state of opposition to human progress or enlightenment.
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Deliberate obscurity or vagueness.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。