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esotericisms

esotericisms is the plural of esotericism.

Meaning of esotericism

Noun

esotericism (countable and uncountable, plural esotericisms)

  1. The tendency to promote or desire the esoteric.
    • Derridean "messianicity without messianism" that marks so much of post-modernist educational theorizing today, and that makes use of esotericism, sigetics, acroamatics, proleptics, and illocutionary and perlocutionary acts in the disguise of a new pedagogy of the unknowable, wasn't the answer ten...2002, Dave Hill, Marxism Against Postmodernism in Educational Theory, page 257
    Antonyms:
    exotericism
  2. Doctrines or practices of esoteric knowledge.
    • Near-synonym: woo woo
    Synonyms:
    woo woo

Questions about esotericisms

What is esotericisms the plural of?
Esotericisms is the plural of esotericism.

Words near esotericisms in the dictionary

  1. esoteric programming languages
  2. esoterica
  3. esoterical
  4. esoterically
  5. esotericism
  6. esotericisms
  7. esotericist
  8. esotericists
  9. esotericities
  10. esotericity
  11. esoterick

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