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What does obscurantism mean?

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Noun
  1. A state of opposition to human progress or enlightenment.
  2. Deliberate obscurity or vagueness.
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The intellectual, like the utopian, is constantly attacked for obscurantism.
Today, the greatest ally of obscurantism is the spiritually empty economism of our prosperous liberal societies.
They invite questions but also somehow avoid pretentiousness, obscurantism or any form of exclusivity.
Our problem is becoming obscurantism, which is a deliberate hiding of the facts by vested interests who know they are injuring us.
My theory is that her obscurantism is a revenge for the drooling nonsense recited about her by men, male directors especially.
It is hoped that in their absence, other scientists will come forward to champion science against religious obscurantism before masses of people.

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