Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

scientophile

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: sci-en-tophile
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A person who likes science but is not necessarily a scientist.

Example Sentences

"Worse, they had no feeling for it, and they displayed this tone-deafness repeatedly in the full view of ASF's supposed audience of dedicated scientophiles as gathered up by a narrowly technocratic editor."

Etymology

From sciento- + -phile.

Inflected Forms

scientophiles (plural)

Questions

What does scientophile mean?: A person who likes science but is not necessarily a scientist.
Where does scientophile come from?: From sciento- + -phile.

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