Synonyms for sciolism
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : sahy-uh-liz-uh m |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈsaɪ əˌlɪz əm |
Top 10 synonyms for sciolism Other synonyms for the word sciolism
- benightedness
- empty-headedness
- half-knowledge
- illiteracy
- illiterateness
- incomprehension
- innocence
- inscience
- insensitivity
- lack of education
- mental incapacity
- naiveté
- nescience
- oblivion
- obliviousness
- obtuseness
- philistinism
- rawness
- sciolism
- shallowness
- simplicity
- unawareness
- unconsciousness
- uncouthness
- unenlightenment
- unfamiliarity
- unscholarliness
- vagueness
Définition of sciolism
Origin :- "a show of knowledge," 1798; see sciolist + -ism.
- As in illiteracy : noun ignorance
- As in illiterateness : noun ignorance
- As in nescience : noun ignorance
- As in obliviousness : noun ignorance
- As in unawareness : noun ignorance
- As in unconsciousness : noun ignorance
- As in unfamiliarity : noun ignorance
- As in ignorance : noun unintelligence, inexperience
- This is scholarship; the secondary information that has been popular is sciolism.
- Extract from : « Education: How Old The New » by James J. Walsh
- Such an age of sciolism and scholasticism may possibly once more get the better of the literary world.
- Extract from : « Phaedrus » by Plato
- Few things are as distressing as the sciolism of a second-rate English editor of a classic.
- Extract from : « An American at Oxford » by John Corbin
Antonyms for sciolism
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