ignorantism

English

Etymology

From ignorant +‎ -ism.

Noun

ignorantism (countable and uncountable, plural ignorantisms)

1. The support or promotion of ignorance.
2. An ignorant belief or utterance; a solecism.

Related terms

• ignorantist

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “ignorantism”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• matronising

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French ignorantisme.

Noun

ignorantism n (plural ignorantisme)

1. ignorantism

Declension

Declension of ignorantism

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) ignorantism	ignorantismul	(niște) ignorantisme	ignorantismele
genitive/dative	(unui) ignorantism	ignorantismului	(unor) ignorantisme	ignorantismelor
vocative	ignorantismule		ignorantismelor

References

• ignorantism in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN