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单词 obscurantism
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obscurantism

noun
/ˌɒbskjuˈræntɪzəm/
/ɑːbˈskjʊrəntɪzəm/
[uncountable] (formal)
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  1. the practice of deliberately preventing somebody from understanding or discovering something
    • Religious prejudice and scientific obscurantism have been closely entangled throughout the whole history of this debate.
    Word Originmid 19th cent.: from earlier obscurant, denoting a person who obscures something, via German from Latin obscurant- ‘making dark’, from the verb obscurare.
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