cookbookery
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The application of (especially mathematical) techniques learned by rote, without proper understanding or consideration.
Derogatory; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "In this degenerate laboratory work, in this cookbookery of a ritual of recipes, the aim is not to do an honest experiment but to get the "right" answer."
- "Most of the New Math is just what the Old Math was — cookbookery. The difference is that the cookbooks are newer, more up to date — which may be a good thing, if cookbookery is what you want."
- "The problem of cookbookery is not peculiar to data analysis. But the solution of concentrating upon mathematics and proof is."
Etymology
From cookbook + -ery.