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antiscience en · ADJ

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.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Opposed to science and scientific progress.
    • “The playbook presents an antiscience, antidata, and antimedicine agenda,” according to a piece last year by Boston University researchers in JAMA. 2025 February 21, Stephanie Armour, “Trump’s team is using Project 2025 as a blueprint to make changes to federal health programs”, in CNN:
    • 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.” 2023 September 12, Paul Glader, “Four takeaways from Walter Isaacson’s biography of Elon Musk”, in CNN:

Antonyms

proscience · proscientific

Coordinates

nonscientific · unscientific · pseudoscientific · antieducation · anti-intellectual

Synonyms

antiscientific

Translations (4)

scn antiscènzia (opposed to science and scientific progress) · pt anticiência (opposed to science and scientific progress) · es anticiencia (opposed to science and scientific progress) · uk антинауко́вий (opposed to science and scientific progress)

antiscience en · NOUN

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.

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) The abuse or rejection of traditional science; scholarship in which traditional science is abused or disregarded.
    • 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. 2007, Martin Griffiths, International relations theory for the twenty-first century, page 95:

Forms

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antisciences Number=Plur lexicographic

Coordinates

nonscience · pseudoscience · anti-intellectualism

Translations (1)

pt anticiência (the abuse or rejection of traditional science)