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antiscience

antiscience adjective: opposed to science and scientific progress.

Adjective

antiscience (not comparable)

  1. Opposed to science and scientific progress.
    • 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
    • “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
    Synonyms:
    antiscientific

Noun

antiscience (countable and uncountable, plural antisciences)

  1. 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

Synonyms of antiscience

Antonyms

Forms of antiscience

pluralantisciences

Origin of antiscience

From anti- + science.

Questions about antiscience

What does antiscience mean?
Antiscience means opposed to science and scientific progress.
What part of speech is antiscience?
Antiscience can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near antiscience in the dictionary

  1. antischolastic
  2. antischool
  3. antiscia
  4. Antiscian
  5. Antiscians
  6. antiscience
  7. antisciences
  8. antiscientific
  9. antiscientifically
  10. antiscientism
  11. antiscientist

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