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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. a policy of opposition to enlightenment or the spread of knowledge;

2. a deliberate act intended to make something obscure;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Obscurantism \Ob*scur"ant*ism\, n. The system or the principles of the obscurants. --C. Kingsley. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

obscurantism n 1: a policy of opposition to enlightenment or the spread of knowledge 2: a deliberate act intended to make something obscure