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sciency

sciency 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 sciency

comparativemore sciency
superlativemost sciency

Origin of sciency

From science + -y.

Questions about sciency

What is sciency the alternative form of?
Sciency is the alternative form of sciencey.

Words near sciency in the dictionary

  1. sciences up
  2. sciencey
  3. sciencing
  4. sciencing up
  5. sciencism
  6. sciency
  7. scienda
  8. scient
  9. scientaster
  10. scientasters
  11. scienter

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sciency (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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