pseudodiscipline
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An area of study that has a limited resemblance to an academic discipline.
Example Sentences
- "If this is the kind of reasoning that "dialectical logic" encourages, the chief function of that pseudodiscipline would seem to be to facilitate conceptual confusion."
- "In October 1956 the Academy of Sciences held a session that legitimated cybernetics, which had been denounced by Stalinist science and propaganda as a pseudodiscipline."
Etymology
From pseudo- + discipline.