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Etymology

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From obscurant +‎ -ist.

Noun

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obscurantist (plural obscurantists)

  1. 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[1]:
      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.

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Adjective

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obscurantist (not comparable)

  1. Of or relating to obscurantism.
    Synonym: obscurantistic

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French obscurantiste.

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obscurantist m (plural obscutantiști)

  1. obscurantist

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