obscurantist
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Etymology edit
Noun edit
obscurantist (plural obscurantists)
- 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.
Derived terms edit
Adjective edit
obscurantist (not comparable)
- Of or relating to obscurantism.
- Synonym: obscurantistic
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Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French obscurantiste.
Noun edit
obscurantist m (plural obscutantiști)
Declension edit
Declension of obscurantist
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) obscurantist | obscurantistul | (niște) obscutantiști | obscutantiștii |
genitive/dative | (unui) obscurantist | obscurantistului | (unor) obscutantiști | obscutantiștilor |
vocative | obscurantistule | obscutantiștilor |