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Meaning of "antiscientific" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ANTISCIENTIFIC

antiscientific  [ˌæntɪˌsaɪənˈtɪfɪk] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ANTISCIENTIFIC

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Antiscientific is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES ANTISCIENTIFIC MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Antiscience

Antiscience is a position that rejects science and the scientific method. People holding antiscientific views do not accept that science is an objective method, as it purports to be, or that it generates universal knowledge. They also contend that scientific reductionism in particular is an inherently limited means to reach understanding of the complex world we live in. Antiscience proponents also criticize what they perceive as the unquestioned privilege, power and influence science seems to wield in society, industry and politics; they object to what they regard as an arrogant or closed-minded attitude amongst scientists.

Definition of antiscientific in the English dictionary

The definition of antiscientific in the dictionary is opposed to the principles, methods, or aims of science.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ANTISCIENTIFIC


beatific
ˌbiːəˈtɪfɪk
bioscientific
ˌbaɪəʊˌsaɪənˈtɪfɪk
geoscientific
ˌdʒiːəʊˌsaɪənˈtɪfɪk
honorific
ˌɒnəˈrɪfɪk
horrific
hɒˈrɪfɪk
intraspecific
ˌɪntrəspəˈsɪfɪk
lactific
lækˈtɪfɪk
mortific
mɔːˈtɪfɪk
motific
məʊˈtɪfɪk
neuroscientific
ˌnjʊərəʊˌsaɪənˈtɪfɪk
nonscientific
ˌnɒnsaɪənˈtɪfɪk
nonspecific
ˌnɒnspɪˈsɪfɪk
pacific
pəˈsɪfɪk
prescientific
ˌpriːsaɪənˈtɪfɪk
prolific
prəˈlɪfɪk
pseudoscientific
ˌsjuːdəʊˌsaɪənˈtɪfɪk
scientific
ˌsaɪənˈtɪfɪk
specific
spɪˈsɪfɪk
terrific
təˈrɪfɪk
unscientific
ˌʌnsaɪənˈtɪfɪk

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ANTISCIENTIFIC

antisag
Antisana
antisatellite
antiscian
antiscience
antiscorbutic
antiscriptural
antisecrecy
antisegregation
antisegregationist
antiseizure
antisense RNA
antisentimental
antisepalous
antiseparatist
antisepsis
antiseptic
antiseptically
antisepticism
antisepticize

WORDS THAT END LIKE ANTISCIENTIFIC

calcific
calorific
classific
colorific
conspecific
frigorific
Indo-Pacific
infraspecific
interspecific
magnific
mellific
mirific
monospecific
salvific
soporific
South Pacific
stereospecific
subspecific
the Pacific
transpacific

Synonyms and antonyms of antiscientific in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «antiscientific» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ANTISCIENTIFIC

Find out the translation of antiscientific to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of antiscientific from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «antiscientific» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

反科学
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

anticientífico
570 millions of speakers

English

antiscientific
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

antiscientific
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

antiscientific
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

антинаучные
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

anticientífico
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

antiscientific
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

antiscientifique
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Antiscientific
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

unwissen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

antiscientific
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

antiscientific
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Antiscientific
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

antiscientific
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

antiscientific
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Antiscientific
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

antiscientific
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

antiscientifica
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

antiscientific
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

антинаукові
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

antiscientific
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αντιεπιστημονική
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

antiscientific
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

antiscientific
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

antiscientific
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of antiscientific

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ANTISCIENTIFIC»

The term «antiscientific» is used very little and occupies the 184.015 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ANTISCIENTIFIC» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «antiscientific» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «antiscientific» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about antiscientific

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ANTISCIENTIFIC»

Discover the use of antiscientific in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to antiscientific and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The One Culture?: A Conversation about Science
HOW. TO. BE. ANTISCIENTIFIC. Steven Shapin I am not a commissioned officer in the so-called science wars. If anything, I am something between a common soldier and an interested witness to the current hostilities. I was trained in genetics, ...
Jay A. Labinger, Harry Collins, 2010
2
Transformation and Tradition in the Sciences: Essays in ...
22. Aristophanes. and. the. antiscientific. tradition. RICHARD OLSON Harvey Mudd College The interactions between scientific ideas and activities - the scientific tradition - and other important cultural institutions, especially those associated ...
Everett Mendelsohn, 2003
3
Science Deified & Science Defied: The Historical ...
ANTISCIENTIFIC. THOUGHT. IN. THE. ANCIENT. NEAR. EAST. If it is true that the increasingly scientific cast of Near Eastern astral religion that developed in connection with growing astronomical knowledge played a significant role in ...
Richard Olson, 1982
4
The Limits of Scientific Reasoning
This is not an antiscientific book, and I have not intended for any of my statements to be antiscientific. If my previous statements and arguments appear antiscientific, perhaps a good measure of the blame falls on me. The developmental ...
David Faust, 1984
5
Conversations on Peirce: Reals and Ideals
Such instances of course give rise to public debate and therefore to the perception that fundamentalism is essentially antiscientific. Thus, in A Common Faith, Iohn Dewey maintained that “the fundamentalist in religion is one whose beliefs in ...
Douglas R. Anderson, Carl R. Hausman, 2012
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Never Pure: Historical Studies of Science as if It Was ...
CHAPTER. 3. How. to. Be. Antiscientific. I am not a commissioned officer in the Science Wars. If anything, I am something between a common soldier and an interested witness to the current hostilities. I was trained in genetics, but for many  ...
Steven Shapin, 2010
7
Constructing the Beginning: Discourses of Creation Science
to accept this position as it stands generates difficulties in making sense of the public understanding of science, which is marked by the continuing presence of various antiscientific anomalies. Rationalization has to see these movements as  ...
Simon Locke, 2014
8
The Modern Moves West: California Artists and Democratic ...
Antiscientific modernists believed that the reintegration of the self into the world would dispel the horror of scientific “progress.” A vision of the world was always a vision of oneself, so that humans defined their individual values, fundamental ...
Richard Candida Smith, 2012
9
My Life in Prison: Memoirs of a Chinese Political Dissident
As to the charge of being antiscientific, there is some truth in that. But science doesn't enjoy any special exemption from being opposed; it is not a crime to be antiscientific. Wheel heard me out and then said, “Although the two of us have major ...
Jiang Qisheng, 2012
10
Duchamp and the Aesthetics of Chance: Art as Experiment
48 Duchamp, however, never saw himself as an “artist-engineer-scientist,” and the 3 Standard Stoppages and all his other works of the years from 1913 to 1915 are in no way proscientific stances against the antiscientific stances of the ...
Herbert Molderings, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ANTISCIENTIFIC»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term antiscientific is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Francis' Momentous Encyclical: On Care for Our Common Home
According to Ilya Prigogine, Nobel laureate in chemistry: "We are faced with a tragic choice between an alienating science and an antiscientific ... «Huffington Post, Jun 15»
2
Letter: On fluoride and the right to a second opinion
By contrast, the political profluoridation stance has evolved in to a dogmatic, authoritarian, essentially antiscientific posture, one that ... «Gloucester Daily Times, May 15»
3
Bibliometrics: The Leiden Manifesto for research metrics
... promotes an unethical and antiscientific culture among researchers. (...) If we design a mechanical ecosystem to assess scientific productivity ... «Nature.com, Apr 15»
4
Tech Site Reddit Donates $330000 to Atheist, Pro-Abortion Groups
Allen asked “if a half-dozen volunteers can keep [Reddit] from being a microphone for the antiscientific, is it too much to ask for newspapers to ... «Media Research Center, Mar 15»
5
Save Willie: The global warming movement is anti-science, oblivious …
Some perpetrators believe they fight for science, but they could not be more antiscientific, if not fascistic. If there's any chance at a rational policy ... «Financial Post, Feb 15»
6
New York Times takes aim at treatment for peripheral artery disease
... the Times slanders many of the doctors who perform them and advances a thoroughly retrograde and antiscientific approach to medicine. «World Socialist Web Site, Feb 15»
7
Is Billy Graham an Evangelical?
Rather than bravely fight against “ignorant and antiscientific ideas about evolution” or recant “his early-career assertion that the Bible declared ... «ChristianityToday.com, Feb 15»
8
LETTERS - Jan. 28
The antiscientific fearmongering that she and others have engaged in to pander to their paranoid antigovernment base has resulted in many ... «Philly.com, Jan 15»
9
Marvin Zelen, 87; famous for Woburn study
... they had poor quality control, not enough patients — everything you can think of that was antiscientific,” Dr. Zelen told American Magazine. «Boston Globe, Nov 14»
10
Why we need to talk about the scientific consensus on climate change
When I read the antiscientific bullshit put out by the denial-o-sphere, this rings all too true. A few of us, not necessarily the "best", do try to fight ... «The Guardian, Nov 14»

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