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scotosis

scotosis noun: intellectual blindness: a hardening of the mind against unwanted wisdom.

Noun

scotosis (uncountable)

  1. Intellectual blindness: a hardening of the mind against unwanted wisdom.

Origin of scotosis

From scoto- + -osis.

Questions about scotosis

What does scotosis mean?
Scotosis means intellectual blindness: a hardening of the mind against unwanted wisdom.
What part of speech is scotosis?
Scotosis is a noun.

Words near scotosis in the dictionary

  1. scotopia
  2. scotopic
  3. scotopsin
  4. scotoscope
  5. scotoscopes
  6. scotosis
  7. scototactic
  8. scototaxes
  9. scototaxis
  10. scototherapy
  11. scots

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