Obscurantism

Definitions: Obscurantism

Obscurantism

Noun

1. A policy of opposition to enlightenment or the spread of knowledge.

2. A deliberate act intended to make something obscure.

Date "obscurantism" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1871. (references)

Crosswords: Obscurantism

Non-English Usage: "Obscurantism" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Romanian (obscurantism).

"Obscurantism" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Obscurantism" is used about 16 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	16	87,710

Language		Translations for "obscurantism"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		obskurantizëm. (various references)

Arabic		‏نزعة إعاقة التحضر, ‏غموض متعمد, ‏توجه لا حضاري, ‏الظلامية. (various references)

Bulgarian		реакционерство, обскурантизъм, мракобесие (ignorantism). (various references)

Czech		tmářství. (various references)

Farsi		مخالفت باعلم ومعرفت , مخالفت باروشنفکری , کهنه پرستی , تاریک اندیشی , سبک نگارش مبهم . (various references)

French		obscurantisme. (various references)

German		obskurantismus, aufklärungsfeindlichkeit. (various references)

Greek		σκοταδισμόσ, μίσοσ κατά τησ μάθησησ. (various references)

Hebrew		שנאת הדעת, בערות (ignorance, illiteracy, stupidity). (various references)

Hungarian		maradiság (backwardness, conservatism, old fogydom), lelki sötétség. (various references)

Italian		oscurantismo. (various references)

Manx		anhoilsheydys. (various references)

Pig Latin		obscurantismay

Portuguese		obscurantista (obscuration). (various references)

Romanian		obscurantism. (various references)

Russian		обскурантизм, мракобесие. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		opskurantizam, mračnjaštvo. (various references)

Spanish		oscurantismo, obscurantismo. (various references)

Swedish		obskurantism. (various references)

Thai		การยับยั้งหรือต่อต้านความคิดใหม่ๆ. (various references)

Turkish		gericilik (reaction, retrogadation). (various references)

Ukranian		обскурантизм, мракобісся. (various references)

Vietnamese		chính sách ngu đần. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "obscurantism": obscurantisms. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Obscurantism" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: obscurantis, obscurantisme. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "obscurantism" (pronounced 'Ob*scur"ant*ism'): Abolitionism, Absenteeism, Absinthism, Absolutism, Academicism, Academism, Accidentalism, Achromatism, Acosmism, Acrobatism, Acrotism, Actinism, Adiaphorism, AEstheticism, Africanism, Agnosticism, Agonism, Agrarianism, Agriculturism, Albinism, Albinoism, Alcoholism, Alienism, Allodialism, Allomerism, Allomorphism, Allotheism, Alphabetism, Altruism, Amateurism, Americanism, Amorphism, Anabaptism, Anachorism, Anachronism, Anacrotism, Anagrammatism, Analogism, Anamorphism, Anarchism, Anathematism, Anatocism, Anatomism, Anchoretism, Andabatism, Aneurism, Anglicanism, Anglicism, Anglo-Catholicism, Anglo-Saxonism. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-c-i-m-n-o-r-s-s-t-u"
	-2 letters: incubators, obscurants, suctorians.
	-3 letters: aconitums, acrotisms, coumarins, croissant, incubator, miscounts, monastics, naturisms, obscurant, ostracism, romantics, saturnism, subatomic, submicron, subtonics, suctorian, urbanisms, urbanists.
	-4 letters: aconitum, acrotism, amorists, antiboss, arsonist, auctions, bastions, bimanous, biramous, brutisms, cambists, caribous, carotins, cautions, cistrons, combusts, corbinas, coumarin, courants, craniums, crimsons, cumarins, curtains, inbursts, incrusts, manitous, massicot, microbus, minorcas, miscount.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-c-i-m-n-o-r-s-s-t-u"
	+1 letter: obscurantisms.
	+4 letters: rambunctiousness.
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