So What’s a Sciolistic?

I love unusual words; however, I hate it when people use them and don’t explain them.  We do this in church all the time…we use “Christianese” that most churchgoers are familiar with (although I would guess many don’t fully understand some words us preachers like to use) but CEO’s (Christmas and Easter Only) and pre-Christan attenders most likely don’t understand what we’re talking about half the time.

So, in the explanation of this blog, I used the word, “Sciolistics”.  A sociolistic is someone who shows a very superficial demonstration of learning or it is someone who never even thinks about matters of faith.  This is different than a skeptic, cynic, or critic.  How would you define skeptic, cynic or critic?