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science-y

science-y is the alternative form of sciencey.

Meaning of sciencey

Adjective

sciencey (comparative more sciencey, superlative most sciencey)

  1. (informal) Scientific; of or pertaining to science.
    • True, most of us concede that quasi-experimental empirical research, today symbolized by multiple-regression equations, is in some sense the most "sciencey" part of political science.1998, Thomas Bender, Carl E. Schorske, American Academic Culture in Transformation, →ISBN
  2. (informal) Apparently, but not necessarily, scientific; having the trappings of science.
    • Near-synonyms: sciencelike; scientistic; pseudoscientific

Forms of science-y

comparativemore science-y
superlativemost science-y

Questions about science-y

What is science-y the alternative form of?
Science-y is the alternative form of sciencey.

Words near science-y in the dictionary

  1. science-fictioners
  2. science-fictionish
  3. science-fictionlike
  4. science-fictions
  5. science-fictiony
  6. science-y
  7. scienced
  8. scienced up
  9. scienceless
  10. sciencelike
  11. scienceman

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Adapted from Wiktionary: science-y (page history and authors); sciencey (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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