the practice of deliberately preventing someone from understanding or discovering something Religious prejudice and scientific obscurantism have been closely entangled throughout the whole history of this debate.
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NAmE//əbˈskyʊrəntɪst//
adjectiveSee obscurantism in the Oxford Advanced Learner's DictionaryCheck pronunciation: obscurantism