obscurantism
noun /ˌɒbskjuˈræntɪzəm/
/ɑːbˈskjʊrəntɪzəm/
[uncountable] (formal)- 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。
词源mid 19th cent.: from earlier obscurant, denoting a person who obscures something, via German from Latin obscurant- ‘making dark’, from the verb obscurare. - Religious prejudice and scientific obscurantism have been closely entangled throughout the whole history of this debate.