ultracrepidarianism
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From ultracrepidarian + -ism.
Noun
[edit]ultracrepidarianism (uncountable)
- (uncommon) The habit or act of giving opinions on matters outside the scope of one's knowledge.
- 1993, Journal of World Trade, volume 27, numbers 1–3, page 53:
- The other is for the Gatt to steer off its slippery slope toward ultracrepidarianism and avoid any interference with national environmental policies, so long as they are not protectionist.
- 2001, David Harley, Robert Slade, Urs E. Gattiker, Viruses Revealed: Understand and Counter Malicious Software, McGraw Hill Professional, →ISBN, pages xxxii–xxxiii:
- Unfortunately, people who are competent in some areas of security sometimes overestimate their own competence in other areas, and viruses seem to attract a particularly virulent brand of ultracrepidarianism (“acting or speaking outside one's ability or knowledge”).
- 2011, Iain D. Thomson, Heidegger, Art, and Postmodernity, Cambridge University Press (2011), →ISBN, page 214 (footnote):
- The unabashed ultracrepidarianism evident in most mainstream philosophers' use and abuse of "postmodernism" is itself provocative.
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