esotericism

plural esotericisms

1. countableuncountableThe tendency to promote or desire the esoteric.

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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

   Antonyms: exotericism

2. countableuncountablehuman sciencesDoctrines or practices of esoteric knowledge.

   Western esotericism

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   Near-synonym: woo woo

   Synonyms: woo woo