Obscurantists are people that promote or support ideas that are unclear, vague, or difficult to understand. On the other hand, there are antonyms that express the opposite idea. For instance, enlighteners are individuals that enlighten or inform people with knowledge or understanding. Similarly, clarifiers make things clearer or more understandable. Educators, teachers, and intellectuals are also antonyms of obscurantists as they aim to foster knowledge and understanding. Rationalists, who support the use of reason rather than faith and emotions, are also antonyms of obscurantists. Overall, antonyms of obscurantists signify movements towards enlightenment, rationality, and clarity.

What are the antonyms for Obscurantists?

• n.

  • reactionary
  • liberal
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  • progressive
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  • radical
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Famous quotes with Obscurantists

• Lucius Cary, Viscount Falkland, managed to make himself a most conspicuous example of every virtue and every grace of mind and manner; and this was the more remarkable because in the whole period through which he lived — the period leading up to the Civil War — the public affairs of England were an open playground for envy, hatred, malice, and all uncharitableness.Here we get on track of what conservatism is.Conservatism is not a body of opinion, it has no set platform or creed, and hence, strictly speaking, there is no such thing as a hundred-per-cent conservative group or partyThey were sentimental obstructionists, probably also obscurantists, but not conservatives. Nor yet is conservatism the antithesis of radicalism; the antithesis of radical is superficial. Falkland was a great radical; he was never for a moment caught by the superficial aspect of things. A person may be as radical as you please, and still may make an extremely conservative estimate of the force of necessity exhibited by a given set of conditions.The conservative is a person who considers very closely every chance, even the longest, of "throwing out the baby with the bath-water," as the German proverb puts it, and who determines his conduct accordingly.

  Albert Jay Nock

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