Thesaurus / sciolism
EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
There are many positions in life wherein Sciolism seems to be more profitable than knowledge.
ANCIENT FAITHS AND MODERNTHOMAS INMAN
This is scholarship; the secondary information that has been popular is sciolism.
EDUCATION: HOW OLD THE NEWJAMES J. WALSH
Such an age of sciolism and scholasticism may possibly once more get the better of the literary world.
PHAEDRUSPLATO
Few things are as distressing as the sciolism of a second-rate English editor of a classic.
AN AMERICAN AT OXFORDJOHN CORBIN
WORDS RELATED TO SCIOLISM
- benightedness
- bewilderment
- blindness
- callowness
- crudeness
- darkness
- denseness
- disregard
- dumbness
- empty-headedness
- fog
- half-knowledge
- illiteracy
- incapacity
- incomprehension
- innocence
- inscience
- insensitivity
- lack of education
- mental incapacity
- naiveté
- nescience
- oblivion
- obliviousness
- obtuseness
- philistinism
- rawness
- sciolism
- shallowness
- simplicity
- unawareness
- uncouthness
- unenlightenment
- unfamiliarity
- unscholarliness
- vagueness
- benightedness
- bewilderment
- blindness
- callowness
- crudeness
- darkness
- denseness
- disregard
- dumbness
- empty-headedness
- fog
- half-knowledge
- illiteracy
- incapacity
- incomprehension
- innocence
- inscience
- insensitivity
- lack of education
- mental incapacity
- naiveté
- nescience
- oblivion
- obliviousness
- obtuseness
- philistinism
- rawness
- sciolism
- shallowness
- simplicity
- unawareness
- unconsciousness
- uncouthness
- unenlightenment
- unscholarliness
- vagueness
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