cimmerianism

== English == === Etymology === From cimmerian +‎ -ism. === Noun === cimmerianism (uncountable) (figuratively) mental darkness; ignorance. 1824, Blackwood's magazine, Volume 16, Letters of Timothy Tickler, Esp. No. XVIII. It is sufficient to have given all who understand anything about such matters, a glimpse of the awful cimmerianism of the philologer and classical critic of the Edinburgh Review.