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SCIOLISM
Definition of SCIOLISM
noun
The practice of expressing opinions on something which one knows only superficially or has little real understanding of; also, shallow or superficial knowledge; an instance of this.
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Where it comes from
From Late Latin sciolus (“sciolist”) + English -ism (suffix forming the names of tendencies of action, behaviour, condition, opinion, or state belonging to classes or groups of persons), based on sciolist. Sciolus is a diminutive of Latin scius (“cognizant, knowing”) + -olus (variant of -ulus (suffix forming diminutives)); while scius is either from sciō (“to be able to; to have practical knowledge, know (how to do something); to understand”) (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; to be unable”), from ne- (prefix meaning ‘not’) + sciō).
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SCIOLISM in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 124, 21 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 124, 21 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SCIOLISM starts with S and ends with M. Sorted, its letters read CIILMOSS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. S and I appear more than once.
Words that start SCIOLI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found SCIOLISM?
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