单词 | sciolism |
释义 | sciolismn. depreciative. Superficial knowledge, esp. when presented as comprehensive; pretentious superficiality of knowledge. Cf. sciolist n. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > superficial knowledge > [noun] tirology1560 lip-wisdoma1586 morosophy1594 slenderness1639 stall-learning1673 index-learning1728 sciolism1753 knowingness1819 pansciolism1868 smattery1892 1753 Monthly Rev. Apr. 272 Such of the former, as mistake sciolism for philosophy, must have consequently often mistaken the trivial for the important. 1816 S. T. Coleridge Statesman's Man. App. D p. xxxi That epidemic of a proud ignorance occasioned by a diffused sciolism. 1855 C. Kingsley Glaucus 44 The tendency to shallow and conceited sciolism, engendered by hearing popular lectures on all manner of subjects. 1876 F. W. Farrar In Days of Youth xvi. 148 The empty sciolism of much that calls itself criticism. 1922 Fortn. Rev. 1 May 844 Sciolism is always disturbed to the centre by the shock of the new idea. 1984 Times Lit. Suppl. 16 Nov. 1321/4 It would be tragic if this series fosters, unwittingly through its format, undergraduate sciolism. 2005 Rev. Metaphysics 58 689 Watts' sure-footed approach avoids any form of circumlocution or sciolism. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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