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superscientific

superscientific adjective: above or beyond science.

Adjective

superscientific (comparative more superscientific, superlative most superscientific)

  1. Above or beyond science.
    • Humble positivism allowed educators, politicians, or religious authorities to believe, and behave as if, they possess superscientific knowledge that reaches further into the fabric of reality than empirical science.2005, George A. Reisch, How the Cold War Transformed Philosophy of Science, page 298
    • It should be emphasized that highly improbable events occur in nature without the involvement of any kind of supernatural or superscientific phenomena.2012, J. Woods Halley, How Likely is Extraterrestrial Life?, page 52

Forms of superscientific

comparativemore superscientific
superlativemost superscientific

Origin of superscientific

From super- + scientific.

Questions about superscientific

What does superscientific mean?
Superscientific means above or beyond science.
What part of speech is superscientific?
Superscientific is an adjective.

Words near superscientific in the dictionary

  1. superscholarly
  2. superschool
  3. superschools
  4. superscience
  5. supersciences
  6. superscientific
  7. superscope
  8. superscopes
  9. superscout
  10. superscouts
  11. superscreen

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