obscurantism
/ˌɒbskjʊəˈræntɪzəm/noun
mass noun
- the practice of deliberately preventing the facts or full details of something from becoming known蒙昧主义。
派生词
obscurant
noun & adjectiveobscurantist
noun & adjective词源
mid 19th cent.: from earlier obscurant, denoting a person who obscures something, via German from Latin obscurant- 'making dark', from the verb obscurare.