sciolism

n. 一知半解, 肤浅知识

发音

UK /ˈsaɪ.ə.lɪ.z(ə)m/
其它
US /ˈsaɪ.əˌlɪ.z(ə)m/

词形变化

sciolisms 复数 sciolisms

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The practice of expressing opinions on something which one knows only superficially or has little real understanding of; also, shallow or superficial knowledge; (countable) an instance of this.

    过时 贬义 不可数 可数

词汇关系

名词

上位词 2

shallowness superficiality

词源

From Late Latin sciolus (“sciolist”) + English -ism (suffix forming the names of tendencies of action, behaviour, condition, opinion, or state belonging to classes or groups of persons), based on sciolist. Sciolus is a diminutive of Latin scius (“cognizant, knowing”) + -olus (variant of -ulus (suffix forming diminutives)); while scius is either from sciō (“to be able to; to have practical knowledge, know (how to do something); to understand”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *skey- (“to dissect; to split”)), or is a back-formation from nescius (“ignorant, unaware; unknowing”) (from nesciō (“to be ignorant, not know, not understand; to be unable”), from ne- (prefix meaning ‘not’) + sciō).

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