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What (who) is obscurantism$54333$ - definition
obscurantist
![[[Aristotle]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Aristotle Altemps Inv8575.jpg?width=200 "[[Aristotle]]")
![The computer scientist [[Bill Joy]] proposed controlling the public's access to certain data, information, and knowledge, because the public cannot handle the truth.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bill joy.jpg?width=200 "The computer scientist [[Bill Joy]] proposed controlling the public's access to certain data, information, and knowledge, because the public cannot handle the truth.")
![The economist [[Friedrich August von Hayek]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Friedrich Hayek portrait.jpg?width=200 "The economist [[Friedrich August von Hayek]]")
![[[G. W. F. Hegel]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/G.W.F. Hegel (by Sichling, after Sebbers).jpg?width=200 "[[G. W. F. Hegel]]")
![In the 18th century, the [[Marquis de Condorcet]] was a political scientist who correctly perceived obscurantism as a contributing cause of the French Revolution in 1789.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Marquis de condorcet hd.jpg?width=200 "In the 18th century, the [[Marquis de Condorcet]] was a political scientist who correctly perceived obscurantism as a contributing cause of the French Revolution in 1789.")
![[[Karl Marx]] in 1861](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Marx4.jpg?width=200 "[[Karl Marx]] in 1861")
AIMING TO HIDE INFORMATION OR INSIGHT
Obscurantist; Obscurantists; Obscuritanism; Abstruseness; Abstruse
If you describe something as obscurantist, you mean that it is deliberately vague and difficult to understand, so that it prevents people from finding out the truth about it. (FORMAL or WRITTEN)
I think that a lot of poetry published today is obscurantist nonsense.
ADJ
obscurantism
AIMING TO HIDE INFORMATION OR INSIGHT
Obscurantist; Obscurantists; Obscuritanism; Abstruseness; Abstruse
Obscurantism is the practice or policy of deliberately making something vague and difficult to understand, especially in order to prevent people from finding out the truth. (FORMAL or WRITTEN)
...legalistic obscurantism.
N-UNCOUNT
Abstruse
AIMING TO HIDE INFORMATION OR INSIGHT
Obscurantist; Obscurantists; Obscuritanism; Abstruseness; Abstruse
·adj Concealed or hidden out of the way.
II. Abstruse ·adj Remote from apprehension; difficult to be comprehended or understood; recondite; as, abstruse learning.
