Sciolist is someone who engages in pretentious display of superficial knowledge.
Sciolist es alguien que muestra un conocimiento superficial pretencioso.
| Front | sciolist \SAI-uh-list\ |
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| Back | noun One who engages in pretentious display of superficial knowledge. [ From Late Latin sciolus (smatterer), diminutive of Latin scius (knowing), from scire (to know). Ultimately from the Indo-European root skei- (to cut or split), which also gave us schism, ski, shin, science, conscience, nice, scienter, nescient, exscind, and adscititious. Earliest documented use: 1810.] "This consists of some of the dullest sciolism in the history of prose, a standardized academic jargon and rhetoric, the dutiful rehearsal of received theory, and the deliberate misrepresentation of anything challenging or rejecting academic postmodernism." - Michael Donaghy; The Shape of the Dance; Picador; 2009. |
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