#obscurantism

• Anti-intellectual — Manifesting hostility, distrust, or contempt toward intellectuals, culture, science, and academic education; tending to underestimate or reject the importance of critical thinking and spiritual values in society. In a structural sense, it describes populist movements, conservative social attitudes, or simplifying political discourses.
• Anti-intellectualism — A doctrine, social attitude, or ideological trend characterized by systematic hostility, suspicion, and contempt toward intellectuals, culture, art, and academic education; a structural tendency to reject critical thinking and scientific rigor in favor of instinct or populism. In a historical sense, it was utilized by totalitarian regimes to neutralize university elites.
• Anti-intellectualist — Manifesting the characteristics of anti-intellectualism or being an adherent of this movement; adherents or movements that challenge the legitimacy, authority, or value of cultural and scientific elites. In a structural sense, it describes a doctrine or action directed toward minimizing the role of higher education in public life.
• Anti-intellectualist — A woman who is an adherent of anti-intellectualism or who manifests a hostile and distrustful attitude toward cultural and academic elites; a trend, action, or ideology opposing intellectualism. As an adjective inflected in the feminine form, it qualifies institutional measures, political rhetorics, or social manifestations aimed at devaluing higher education and critical thinking.
• Antiscientific — Opposing science, the scientific method, or the rigorous spirit of research based on empirical evidence, logic, and experimentation. The term characterizes theories, doctrines, beliefs, or dogmatic manifestations that reject the validity of proven laws of nature, propagate superstitions or misinformation, and deny rational progress in favor of mystical, pseudoscientific, or ideological explanations.