antiscience
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]antiscience (not comparable)
- Opposed to science and scientific progress.
- Antonym: proscience
- Coordinate terms: (overlapping) anti-intellectual, antieducation; pseudoscientific; (including being indifferent) nonscientific, unscientific
Translations
[edit]opposed to science and scientific progress
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Noun
[edit]antiscience (countable and uncountable, plural antisciences)
- The abuse or rejection of traditional science; scholarship in which traditional science is abused or disregarded.
- Coordinate terms: (overlapping) anti-intellectualism; pseudoscience; (including indifference) nonscience
- 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
[edit]the abuse or rejection of traditional science
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