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sciolism
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Definition:pretentious superficiality of knowledge; as a fop
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a somewhat near relative of mine from becoming any wise conspicuous in this vicinity in a status not only much beneath my own, but associated at best with the sciolism of literary or political adventurers.
George Eliot. Middlemarch
---It is only vulgar ignorance which turns away in hostility or contempt from the imbecile and the deranged, and only a worse than vulgar sciolism which sees in genius and the hero nothing but an aberration from its much-prized average.
George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind
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Beside his portraits the psychological studies of Hardy and Turgénieff, or the exhaustive elaborations of Meredith, seem no more than sciolism. With a deft stroke, in a phrase, in a word, he does what costs them chapters, and does it better.
James Joyce. Ibsen's New Drama (1900)
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