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22glimmering — Synonyms and related words: a little learning, amateurism, blink, blinking, blinky, broad hint, clue, coruscant, coruscating, coruscation, cue, dilettantism, dilettantship, firefly, gentle hint, gesture, glimmer, glimmerous, glimmery, glimpse,… …
23glimpse — Synonyms and related words: a little learning, amateurism, behold, blink, cast, cast a glance, catch sight of, clap eyes on, descry, dilettantism, dilettantship, discern, discover, distinguish, espy, flash, gander, glance, glance at, glimmering,… …
24shallowness — Synonyms and related words: a little learning, absentmindedness, amateurism, appearance, big deal, carelessness, dilettantism, dilettantship, disregard, disregardfulness, distraction, emptiness, exteriority, externality, externalness,… …
25smattering — Synonyms and related words: a little learning, amateurism, cast, coquetry, dabbling, dalliance, dallying, dash, dilettantism, dilettantship, few, fiddling, flirtation, fooling, fooling around, gleam, glimmering, glimpse, half learning, handful,… …
26superficiality — Synonyms and related words: a little learning, absentmindedness, amateurism, apparent character, appearance, appearances, aridity, barrenness, big deal, bloodlessness, carelessness, characterlessness, colorlessness, cursoriness, deadness,… …
27ignorance — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Lack of knowledge Nouns 1. ignorance, nescience; illiteracy; darkness, blindness; incomprehension, inexperience, simplicity, simpleness, innocence; stupidity; unawareness. See folly, insanity,… …
28smattering — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. superficiality, sciolism. See ignorance. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. superficial knowledge, some half truths, smatter; see introduction 3 . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. small amount, slight amount,… …
29Ignorance — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Ignorance >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 ignorance ignorance nescience tabula rasa crass ignorance ignorance crasse Sgm: N 1 unacquaintance unacquaintance Sgm: N 1 unconsciousness unconsciousness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 …
30sciolist — [ sʌɪəlɪst] noun archaic a person who pretends or claims to be knowledgeable. Derivatives sciolism noun sciolistic adjective Origin C17: from late L. sciolus (dimin. of L. scius knowing , from scire know ) + ist …
