Obscurantist

adj, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A practitioner of obscurantism; an obscurant.

    "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."

  2. 2
    a person who is deliberately vague wordnet
Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or relating to obscurantism. not-comparable

Synonyms

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ignorantistnitpickerobscurantisticpettifoggerprevaricatorquibbler

Example

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"The English obscurantist Thomas Robert Malthus came up with his misanthropic "theory" during the transition from the eighteenth to the nineteenth century."

Etymology

From obscurant + -ist.

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