Word.ws English Dictionary

scientess

scientess noun: a female scientist.

Noun

scientess (plural scientesses)

  1. (rare) A female scientist.
    • Even Urania, the Muse of Astronomy, was more artiste in her day than scientess (word fully protected by contemplated copyright).1945, “The Editor Has a Notion”, in The Writer’s Monthly, volume 66, page 351, column 2
    • On account of your female Burbank, your scientess (scientistess is a twister. Peder Piber et a peg of piggled pebbers) won’t play ball with W R.1947, Ward Moore, “Consequences of a Discovery”, in Greener Than You Think, New York, N.Y.: William Sloane Associates, Inc., page 53

Examples of scientess in a sentence

  • GLEASON / gay, energetic “scientess” … / full of clever and original ideas / Science1957, “Counselors”, in Portal; Weaver High School; Hartford, Connecticut, page 17:
  • Beauteous Nancy Kwan stars as mad scientess, Suzy Wrong.1973 July, “The Monster Times Teletype”, in The Monster Times, volume 1, number 24, page 24:
  • Anyway, one scientist (a guy scientist, not a, whatchacallit, scientess) said maybe women just need to use their whole brain.2000 December 11, Doug Robarchek, “Does his brain hear hers? 2 halves make a whole new battle”, in The Charlotte Observer, volume 131...
  • The trendy new word rikejo refers to young women in the sciences — something like a sci-girl or scientess.2017, Kittredge Cherry, Womansword: What Japanese Words Say About Women, Stone Bridge Press, →ISBN:

Forms of scientess

pluralscientesses

Origin of scientess

From scientist + -ess (the suffix -ist is removed).

Questions about scientess

What does scientess mean?
Scientess means a female scientist.
How do you use scientess in a sentence?
GLEASON / gay, energetic “scientess” … / full of clever and original ideas / Science
What part of speech is scientess?
Scientess is a noun.
What is the plural of scientess?
The plural of scientess is scientesses.

Words near scientess in the dictionary

  1. scienda
  2. scient
  3. scientaster
  4. scientasters
  5. scienter
  6. scientess
  7. scientesses
  8. scientia potentia est
  9. sciential
  10. scientian
  11. scientians

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: scientess (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “scientess.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/scientess. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.