obscurantism (opposition to enlightenment and progress)
çekim: çoğul мракобе́сия · tamlayan мракобе́сия
eş: обскурантизм
köken: мрак (mrak, “darkness”) + -о- (-o-) + -бе́сие (-bésije), from беси́ться (besítʹsja, “to rage”); calque of French manie des ténèbres (“mania of obscurity”), coined by Bestuzhev-Marlinsky in the 1810s and popularized by Belinsky. The suffix -бе́сие (-bésije) corresponds to Old Church Slavonic -бѣ́сїе (-bě́sije), used to translate Ancient Greek -μᾰνία (-mănía) in religious terminology, such as in…
köken: From Latin obscūrans, the present participle of obscūrāre (“cover, darken, obscure”), suffixed with -ism. Cognate of German Obskurantismus, French obscurantisme, English obscurantism.