sciolism

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Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

sciolisms

1.
(dated, derogatory, uncountable)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.

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jack of all trades

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Nguồn gốc từ

ine-pro From sciolus (sciolist) + -ism, based on sciolist. Sciolus is a diminutive of Latin scius (cognizant, knowing) + -olus (variant of -ulus); while scius is either from sciō (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;