obscurantism

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

From Latin obscūrans, from obscūrō (“to cover, darken, obscure”) + -ism.

But again the forces of obscurantism triumphed. — William Pitt and national revival, J. Holland (John Holland) Rose
I could look with perfectly cold blood on this knight of obscurantism writhing on the rack.” Herr von Auffenberg heard this temperamental statement with noticeably tenuous reassurance. — The Goose Man, Jakob Wassermann
If to-day at home we pass obscurantism for morality, the Indian does the reverse; he tears the last shreds from our ideas of what Phallic worship might once have been. — From Edinburgh to India & Burmah, W. G. (William Gordon) Burn Murdoch

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