1K+ Words That Rhyme With OBSCURANTISMS

• dominance through threat of punishment and violence

• a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)

• an ideological belief in the complete and unrestricted power of government.

• the doctrine of an absolute being, often related to idealism in philosophy.

• orthodoxy of a scholastic variety

• a style of painting and sculpture produced under the influence of European academies of art.

• discrimination on the basis of a person's age

• a religious orientation of doubt; a denial of ultimate knowledge of the existence of God

• the disbelief in any claims of ultimate knowledge

• the congenital absence of pigmentation in the eyes and skin and hair

• habitual intoxication; prolonged and excessive intake of alcoholic drinks leading to a breakdown in health and an addiction to alcohol such that abrupt deprivation leads to severe withdrawal symptoms

• an intense persistent desire to drink alcoholic beverages to excess

• an obsolete term for the study and treatment of mental illness

• the quality of being alien

• mountain climbing (not restricted to the Alps)

• the conviction that people should participate in sports as a hobby (for the fun of it) rather than for money

• the doctrine that moral distinctions are invalid

• a Protestant movement in the 16th century that believed in the primacy of the Bible, baptised only believers, not infants, and believed in complete separation of church and state

• the doctrine that human beings are purely animal in nature and lacking a spiritual nature

• preoccupation with satisfaction of physical drives and appetites

• the doctrine that all natural objects and the universe itself have souls

• a state of deep-seated ill-will

• the relation between opposing principles or forces or factors

• an actively expressed feeling of dislike and hostility

• (biochemistry) interference in or inhibition of the physiological action of a chemical substance by another having a similar structure

• a short pithy instructive saying

• (mineralogy) a star-shaped figure with six rays that is seen in some crystal structures under reflected or transmitted light

• (astronomy) a cluster of stars (or a small constellation)

• (ophthalmology) impaired eyesight resulting usually from irregular conformation of the cornea; common in nearsighted people

• (optics) defect in an optical system in which light rays from a single point fail to converge in a single focal point

• the relation that exists when things occur at unrelated times

• the absence of a key; alternative to the diatonic system

• any reaction that occurs automatically without conscious thought or reflection (especially the undirected behavior seen in psychomotor epilepsy)

• use of biological principles in explaining human especially social behavior

• involuntarily or unconsciously clenching or grinding the teeth, typically during sleep

• the manner and dress of a fop or dandy

• acceptance of the inevitability of defeat

• a belief in and reverence for devils (especially Satan)

• dominance through threat of punishment and violence

• a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)

• the process of deformation that produces continents and ocean basins in the earth's crust

• communication that is suitable for or intended to be instructive

• tendency to assert principles as undeniably true

• the doctrine that reality consists of two basic opposing elements, often taken to be mind and matter (or mind and body), or good and evil

• a genetic abnormality resulting in short stature

• an offensive or disparaging expression that is substituted for an inoffensive one

• concern for your own interests and welfare

• an exaggerated opinion of your own importance

• an inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others