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Word: Obscurant

Meaning: As an adjective, it can mean a few things, including simply something (like smoke, or clouds) that obscures something else. As a noun, more importantly, it means an opposer of intellectual progress, political reform and/or enlightenment.

Usage: “The essential element in the black art of obscurantism is not that it wants to darken individual understanding, but that it wants to blacken our picture of the world, and darken our idea of existence.” — Friedrich Nietzsche