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scientistic

scientistic adjective: of, pertaining to, advocating, or acting in accordance with scientism.

Adjective

scientistic (comparative more scientistic, superlative most scientistic)

  1. Of, pertaining to, advocating, or acting in accordance with scientism.
    • Scientific models and scientistic myths are not seaworthy craft because they take as their premise that they are adequate for all circumstances; they assume that reality is knowable, quantifiable, and describable in their notation.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 87

Forms of scientistic

comparativemore scientistic
superlativemost scientistic

Origin of scientistic

From scientism + -istic.

Questions about scientistic

What does scientistic mean?
Scientistic means of, pertaining to, advocating, or acting in accordance with scientism.
What part of speech is scientistic?
Scientistic is an adjective.

Words near scientistic in the dictionary

  1. scientises
  2. scientising
  3. scientism
  4. scientisms
  5. scientist
  6. scientistic
  7. scientistical
  8. scientistically
  9. scientists
  10. scientize
  11. scientized

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