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unscience en · NOUN

Etymology

From Middle English unscience (“false knowledge or understanding”), equivalent to un- + science.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) That which is unscientific or pseudoscientific.
   • It has been used in medicine from time immemorial; but until recently its use was nothing more than a species of mere unscience, shadowed in mystery. 1900, John Vosburgh Stevens, editor, The Annual of Eclectic Medicine and Surgery:
   • Misapplication of this practical connection leads to such unsciences as astrology and alchemy and, with the Romans, augury. 1973, Janet Lembke, Bronze and Iron:

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