antiscience

English

Etymology

anti- +‎ science

Adjective

antiscience (not comparable)

1. Opposed to science and scientific progress.

Translations

opposed to science and scientific progress

• Portuguese: anticiência
• Sicilian: antiscènzia
• Ukrainian: антинауко́вий (uk) (antynaukóvyj)

Noun

antiscience (countable and uncountable, plural antisciences)

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

     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.

Translations

the abuse or rejection of traditional science

• Portuguese: anticiência f

See also

• pseudoscience