antiscience
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.12 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Opposed to science and scientific progress.
noun
The abuse or rejection of traditional science; scholarship in which traditional science is abused or disregarded.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Isaacson reports that Musk’s fractured relationship with Jenna, who is trans, partly led to Musk’s rightward turn toward libertarianism and questioning what he considers the “woke-mind-virus, which is fundamentally antiscience, antimerit, and antihuman.”"
- "“The playbook presents an antiscience, antidata, and antimedicine agenda,” according to a piece last year by Boston University researchers in JAMA."
- "Genealogies are antisciences. Of course, genealogy is not an unproblematic enterprise, since it is a struggle against forms of power that are associated with certain forms of (scientific) knowledge."
Etymology
Etymology tree English anti- Proto-Indo-European *sek-? Proto-Indo-European *-éyti Proto-Indo-European *skey-der. Latin sciō Latin sciēns Latin -ia Latin scientialbor. Old French sciencebor. Middle English science English science English antiscience From anti- + science.