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Meaning of esotericism | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

  1. The tendency to promote or desire the esoteric.
    countable, uncountable
  2. Doctrines or practices of esoteric knowledge.
    countable, uncountable

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Examples

“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.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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