n. A pretentious attitude of scholarship; superficial knowledgeability. [From Late Latin sciolus, smatterer, diminutive of Latin scius, knowing, from scīre, to know; see skei- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.] scio·list n. sci′o·listic adj. |
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