"confusionism" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "confusion",
        "3": "ism"
      },
      "expansion": "confusion + -ism",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From confusion + -ism.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "confusionism (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "54 46",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "65 35",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ism",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "56 44",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Entries with translation boxes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "47 53",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "59 41",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "65 35",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with French translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "65 35",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Russian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1989, Thomas M. Kavanagh, The Limits of Theory, page 168:",
          "text": "Yet it is this very proliferation that has induced Stanley Fish to proclaim the imminent demise of theory, a demise whose most telling symptom is precisely the \"noise\" generated by theory. Commenting on and extending Fish's line of argument, Vincent Descombes argues that we have entered a phase of theoretical confusionism that makes it difficult to determine what theory is.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, A. Kioupkiolis, Freedom After the Critique of Foundations:",
          "text": "Let us not forget, moreover, that objectivism still boasts staunch defenders in contemporary thought, who typically level facile charges of confusionism or obtuseness against so called 'postmodern scepticism' […]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any doctrine or philosophy that serves to confuse people."
      ],
      "id": "en-confusionism-en-noun-fP9PUVlZ",
      "links": [
        [
          "doctrine",
          "doctrine"
        ],
        [
          "philosophy",
          "philosophy"
        ],
        [
          "confuse",
          "confuse"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "54 46",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "47 53",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A strategy of maintaining confusion in the minds and preventing objective analysis."
      ],
      "id": "en-confusionism-en-noun-ojwVDgI3",
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "6 94",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "a strategy of maintaining confusion",
          "word": "confusionnisme"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "6 94",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "zaputaízm",
          "sense": "a strategy of maintaining confusion",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "запутаи́зм"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "confusionism"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms suffixed with -ism",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "Entries with translation boxes",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Terms with French translations",
    "Terms with Russian translations"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "confusion",
        "3": "ism"
      },
      "expansion": "confusion + -ism",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From confusion + -ism.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "confusionism (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1989, Thomas M. Kavanagh, The Limits of Theory, page 168:",
          "text": "Yet it is this very proliferation that has induced Stanley Fish to proclaim the imminent demise of theory, a demise whose most telling symptom is precisely the \"noise\" generated by theory. Commenting on and extending Fish's line of argument, Vincent Descombes argues that we have entered a phase of theoretical confusionism that makes it difficult to determine what theory is.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, A. Kioupkiolis, Freedom After the Critique of Foundations:",
          "text": "Let us not forget, moreover, that objectivism still boasts staunch defenders in contemporary thought, who typically level facile charges of confusionism or obtuseness against so called 'postmodern scepticism' […]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any doctrine or philosophy that serves to confuse people."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "doctrine",
          "doctrine"
        ],
        [
          "philosophy",
          "philosophy"
        ],
        [
          "confuse",
          "confuse"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A strategy of maintaining confusion in the minds and preventing objective analysis."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "a strategy of maintaining confusion",
      "word": "confusionnisme"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "zaputaízm",
      "sense": "a strategy of maintaining confusion",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "запутаи́зм"
    }
  ],
  "word": "confusionism"
}