Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as obscurantism.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The spirit of those who extol the advantage of ignorance; obscurantism.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The support or promotion of ignorance.
  • noun An ignorant belief or utterance; a solecism.

Etymologies

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ignorant +‎ -ism

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