acroamatics

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noun

The practice of delivering esoteric lectures.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

nounacroamatics (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe practice of delivering esoteric lectures.
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    Derridean "messianicity without messianism" that marks so much of post-modernist educational theorizing today, and that makes use of esotericism, sigetics, acroamatics, proleptics, and illocutionary and perlocutionary acts in the disguise of a new pedagogy of the unknowable, wasn't the answer ten years ago.

    2002, Dave Hill, Marxism Against Postmodernism in Educational Theory, page 257

Origin

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