prescientific
prescientific adjective: before the development of modern science.
Adjective (1)
prescientific (not comparable)
- Before the development of modern science.
- It is not improbable that, in some locality where tram-roads were a novelty, their name may have been associated in folk-etymology or by pre-scientific etymologers with that of the engineer.1926, James A.H. Murray, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, volume X, part I, page 248, column 1
- [Martin] Heidegger's concern […] was with ontology, the nature of beings, above all humans. The central question for him was "What is being? What is it for something to be?" He tackled this question not by way of the sciences, but by way of an examination of our prescientific daily life. We are, he...2014 April 12, Michael Inwood, “Martin Heidegger: the philosopher who fell for Hitler [print version: Hitler's philosopher]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review), London, page R10
- Antonyms:
- postscientific
Adjective (2)
prescientific (not comparable)
- Exhibiting or relating to prescience; prescient.
Antonyms of prescientific
Origin of prescientific
From pre- + scientific.
Words formed from prescientific
Questions about prescientific
- What does prescientific mean?
- Prescientific means before the development of modern science.
- What part of speech is prescientific?
- Prescientific is an adjective.
Words near prescientific in the dictionary
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