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Sciolism

noun
1.
Pretentious superficiality of knowledge.






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"Sciolism" Quotes from Famous Books



... fables. His great charm to me is his style, which is singularly rich and chaste. But I've no doubt whatever, myself, that a great deal of this ancient lore, which we have been accustomed to regard as so much sciolism, not to say pure nonsense, had a germ of truth in it, and that truth I believe we are gradually beginning to re-discover. You see, one mustn't always take the formulas employed by these old writers in their literal sense. Many were purely symbolic, and concealed occult meanings. ...
— Austin and His Friends • Frederic H. Balfour



Words linked to "Sciolism" :   superficiality, sciolistic, sciolist, shallowness



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