obscurantist

obscurant +‎ -ist

obscurantist (plural obscurantists)

1. A practitioner of obscurantism; an obscurant.
   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 180:

     The ego thinks that his local time and space is all there is to reality, and that the busy affairs of state and trade are more important than a lot of obscurantist hocus-pocus.

   • 2021 February 2, Katharine Murphy, The Guardian‎:

     Muzzling Kelly also elevates a semi-professional obscurantist to the status of free speech martyr, and that invites a cacophonous pile-on from the rightwing bobble heads who screech about the left’s obsession with identity politics while shovelling identity politics at their audiences.

• obscurantistic

obscurantist (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to obscurantism.

   Synonym: obscurantistic

• substraction, subtractions

Borrowed from French obscurantiste.

obscurantist m (plural obscutantiști)

1. obscurantist