SCIOLISM

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 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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