Timeline for What do you call someone who has extensive knowledge but won't share it?
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| Feb 28, 2013 at 14:59 | history | edited | Mitch | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
punctuation, spelling
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| Feb 10, 2012 at 13:38 | comment | added | Mitch | @MetaEd: added. | |
| Feb 10, 2012 at 13:38 | history | edited | Mitch | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
added connotations
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| Feb 10, 2012 at 4:18 | comment | added | MetaEd | The connotations would very usefully be added to the answer. | |
| Feb 10, 2012 at 1:21 | comment | added | Mitch | @MetaEd: Yes, there are all sorts of cultural connotations to the word, which were not expected by the literal explanation by the OP. But it is still a word that captures what is intended by the OP. | |
| Feb 9, 2012 at 23:57 | comment | added | MetaEd | It seems to be a specifically political term, having to do with a policy toward the general public. An obscurant is defined as a "person who opposes intellectual advancement and political reform", and obscurantist means "the principles or practice of obscurants" and "a policy of withholding information from the public". A third definition is "a style in art and literature characterized by deliberate vagueness or obliqueness". This is all by way of thefreedictionary.com/obscurantist | |
| Feb 9, 2012 at 3:08 | history | answered | Mitch | CC BY-SA 3.0 |