Noun
The system or the principles of the obscurants.
Source: Webster's dictionaryIgnorance and obscurantism have never produced anything other than flocks of slaves for tyranny. Emiliano Zapata
The arts alone give direct access to experience. To eliminate them from education - or worse, to tolerate them as cultural ornaments - is antieducational obscurantism. It is foisted on us by the pedants and snobs of Hellenistic Greece who considered artistic performance fit only for slaves... Peter Drucker
A majority of Indians considered him an embodiment of obscurantism and obstinacy who espoused antediluvian, regressive and protectionist fiscal measures which sparked off an inflationary spiral in the Sixties. Morarji Desai
Here, the supposed Hindu fundamentalists have been abiding by the findings of science, while the so-called secularists have been on the opposite side, the side of dogmatism and obscurantism. Koenraad Elst
Normally, the atheist Left should be the sharpest opponent of religious obscurantism and dogmatic adherence to anti-universalist belief systems like Islam. But in India, the two work happily together for the destruction of their common enemy: Hindu Dharma. Koenraad Elst
In our fight against the virus of obscurantism, it would have helped greatly to keep civilising places such as museums, arthouse cinemas, bookshops and libraries open. Source: Internet