Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

scientize

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: sci-en-tize
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To make scientific.

Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"So far, I have argued that attempts in the 20th century to scientize the humanities wound up putting them at risk."
"Eugenics is an early chapter in a long history of scientized prejudice in the United States, a story in which scientific evidence for racial, class, and gender hierarchies became popular and entered public discourse on a broad scale."
"Husserl tried to scientize psychology."

Etymology

From scient(ific) + -ize.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: scientific

Usage

Transitive verb

Inflected Forms

scientizes (present, singular) scientizing (participle, present) scientized (participle, past) scientized (past)

Synonyms

scientificize

Questions

What does scientize mean?: To make scientific.
Where does scientize come from?: From scient(ific) + -ize.

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