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SCIOLISM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Pretentious superficiality of knowledge
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("sciolism" is a kind of...):
shallowness; superficiality (lack of depth of knowledge or thought or feeling)
Derivation:
sciolist (an amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge)
sciolistic (showing frivolous or superficial interest; amateurish)
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