20 October 2016

sciolism

[sahy-uh-liz-uh m]

noun

1. superficial knowledge.

Origin of sciolism

Late Latin

1810-1820; < Late Latin sciol (us) one who knows little (diminutive of scius knowing; see conscious, -ole1) + -ism

Related forms

sciolist, noun
sciolistic, adjective

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Examples from the Web for sciolism

Historical Examples

Such an age of sciolism and scholasticism may possibly once more get the better of the literary world.
Phaedrus
Plato

Few things are as distressing as the sciolism of a second-rate English editor of a classic.
An American at Oxford
John Corbin

This is scholarship; the secondary information that has been popular is sciolism.
Education: How Old The New
James J. Walsh

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– Thomas A. Edison

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