the practice of deliberately preventing somebody from understanding or discovering something 故弄玄虚;蒙蔽主义;蒙骗政策 Religious prejudice and scientific obscurantism have been closely entangled throughout the whole history of this debate. 在这场辩论的整个历史中,宗教偏见和科学蒙昧主义一直纠缠在一起。
Word Originmid 19th cent.: from earlier obscurant, denoting a person who obscures something, via German from Latin obscurant- ‘making dark’, from the verb obscurare.