cimmerianism
cimmerianism noun: mental darkness; ignorance.
Noun
cimmerianism (uncountable)
- mental darkness; ignorance.
- It is sufficient to have given all who understand anything about such matters, a glimpse of the awful cimmerianism of the philologer and classical critic of the Edinburgh Review.1824, Blackwood's magazine, Volume 16, Letters of Timothy Tickler, Esp. No. XVIII.
- I earnestly recommend to those who are sensible of their own culpable deficiencies in these branches of information, or rather indeed I should say, of common education, to remain no longer in their present Cimmerianism.1855, William Maginn, Miscellaneous Writings of the Late Dr. Maginn, Volume 2, The Odoherty papers
Origin of cimmerianism
From cimmerian + -ism.
Questions about cimmerianism
- What does cimmerianism mean?
- Cimmerianism means mental darkness; ignorance.
- What part of speech is cimmerianism?
- Cimmerianism is a noun.
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