English Explanatory Dictionary

pseudoscience

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any body of knowledge that purports to be scientific or to be supported by science (or may appear to be scientific) but which fails to comply with the scientific method (or rather, is not true science).
  2. Fictitious science as portrayed in science fiction.

Pronunciation

/ˈs(j)uː.dəʊ.saɪ.əns/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-pseudoscience.wav LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-pseudo-science.wav

Word forms

pseudoscience pseudosciences pseudo-science

Etymology

Etymology tree Ancient Greek ψεύδω (pseúdō) Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-ēs Ancient Greek -ης (-ēs) Ancient Greek -ής (-ḗs) Ancient Greek ψευδής (pseudḗs)der. Middle English pseudo- English pseudo- Proto-Indo-European *sek-? Proto-Indo-European *-éyti Proto-Indo-European *skey-der. Latin sciō Latin sciēns Proto-Indo-European *-yós Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ia Latin scientialbor. Old French sciencebor. Middle English science English science English pseudoscience From pseudo- + science, first attested in 1796, in reference to alchemy.

Related words

parascience

Derived words

pseudoscientific pseudoscientifically pseudoscientist

Translations

Afrikaans: pseudowetenskap Azerbaijani: yalan elmlər Bulgarian: лъженаука Bulgarian: псевдонаука Catalan: pseudociència Chinese Cantonese: 偽科學 /伪科学 Chinese Mandarin: 偽科學 /伪科学 Czech: pavěda Czech: pseudověda Danish: pseudovidenskab Dutch: pseudowetenschap Esperanto: pseŭdoscienco Esperanto: falsscienco Estonian: pseudoteadus Finnish: pseudotiede Finnish: näennäistiede French: pseudo-science Georgian: ფსევდომეცნიერება German: Pseudowissenschaft Greek: ψευδοεπιστήμη Gujarati: છદ્મવિજ્ઞાન Gujarati: સ્યુડોસાયન્સમાં Hungarian: áltudomány Icelandic: hjáfræði Indonesian: ilmu semu Indonesian: pseudosains Italian: pseudoscienza Japanese: 疑似科学 Kazakh: жалған ғылым Korean: 의사과학 Korean: 유사과학 Korean: 사이비과학 Central Kurdish: زِڕزانِست Latvian: pseidozinātne Lithuanian: pseudomokslas Malayalam: കപടശാസ്ത്രം Norwegian Bokmål: pseudovitenskap Norwegian Nynorsk: pseudovitskap Persian: شبهعلم Middle Persian: - Polish: pseudonauka Portuguese: pseudociência Romanian: pseudoștiință Russian: псевдонау́ка Russian: лженау́ка Serbo-Croatian: pseudoznanost Sicilian: psiuduscènzia Sicilian: scènzia fausa Slovak: paveda Slovene: psevdoznanost
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