superscience
superscience noun: a discipline comprehending more than one science.
Noun
superscience (plural supersciences)
- A discipline comprehending more than one science.
- What we need is a superscience, a science of the higher nature or of the spirit, a science dealing with the whole arena of purposes and significance and the transformation of being and the laws pertaining to them.2002, Ravi Ravindra, Science and the Sacred: Eternal Wisdom in a Changing World, page 129
- By conventional standards, both psychoanalytic and materialist feminist philosophy of science fall short of their ambitions to be supersciences: the science of science. Neither presents an adequate empirical basis.2001, Marianne Sawicki, Body, Text, and Science, page 250
Forms of superscience
| plural | supersciences |
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Origin of superscience
From super- + science.
Questions about superscience
- What does superscience mean?
- Superscience means a discipline comprehending more than one science.
- What part of speech is superscience?
- Superscience is a noun.
- What is the plural of superscience?
- The plural of superscience is supersciences.
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