sciolism
The practice of expressing opinions on something which one knows only superficially or…The practice of expressing opinions on something which one knows only superficially or has little real understanding of; also, shallow or superficial knowledge; (countable) an instance of this.
Meaning
1 senses(dated, derogatory, uncountable)The practice of expressing opinions on something which one knows only superficially or has little real understanding of; also, shallow or superficial knowledge; (countable) an instance of this.
верхоглядствоverxogljadstvo
- pretentious superficiality of knowledge
Translations
1 languagesOrigin
From Late Latin sciolus (“sciolist”) + English -ism (suffix forming the names of tendencieFrom Late Latin sciolus (“sciolist”) + English -ism (suffix forming the names of tendencies of action, behaviour, condition, opinion, or state belonging to classes or groups of persons), based on sciolist. Sciolus is a diminutive of Latin scius (“cognizant, knowing”) + -olus (variant of -ulus (suffix forming diminutives)); while scius is either from sciō (“to be able to; to have practical knowledge, know (how to do something); to understand”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *skey- (“to dissect; to split”)), or is a back-formation from nescius (“ignorant, unaware; unknowing”) (from nesciō (“to be ignorant, not know, not understand; to be unable”), from ne- (prefix meaning ‘not’) + sciō).
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Forms
plural: sciolisms| Singular | sciolism |
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uncountable
Word family
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