pseudoscience
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek ψεύδω (pseúdō)
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *-ēs
Ancient Greek -ης (-ēs)
Ancient Greek -ής (-ḗs)
Ancient Greek ψευδής (pseudḗs)der.
Middle English pseudo-
English pseudo-
Proto-Indo-European *sek-?
Proto-Indo-European *-éyti
Proto-Indo-European *skey-der.
Latin sciō
Latin sciēns
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Latin -ia
Latin scientialbor.
Old French sciencebor.
Middle English science
English science
English pseudoscience
From pseudo- + science, first attested in 1796, in reference to alchemy.
Base: science
Affixes: pseudo-
Inflected forms:
form: pseudosciences
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pseudo-science
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any body of knowledge that purports to be scientific or to be supported by science (or may appear to be scientific) but which fails to comply with the scientific method (or rather, is not true science).
pos: noun
tags: countable
derogatory
uncountable
examples: The fantastical pseudo-science of alchemy has in all ages had its numerous votaries …
We had enough to do in this world. Life was a beautiful thing. The man who appreciated its real duties and beauties would have sufficient to employ him without dabbling in pseudo sciences which had their roots in frauds, exposed already a hundred times and yet finding fresh crowds of foolish devotees whose insane credulity and irrational prejudice made them impervious to all argument.
gloss: Fictitious science as portrayed in science fiction.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: It pulls together first-rate pseudo-science and high-grade detective meller of the Spillane school (but entirely clean) and the result is fine read-and-forget entertainment.
Related words: parascience
Derived words: pseudoscientific
pseudoscientifically
pseudoscientist
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: pseudowetenskap
lang: Azerbaijani
word: yalan elmlər
lang: Bulgarian
word: лъженаука
roman: lǎženauka
lang: Bulgarian
word: псевдонаука
roman: psevdonauka
lang: Catalan
word: pseudociència
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 偽科學 /伪科学
roman: ngai⁶ fo¹ hok⁶
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 偽科學 /伪科学
roman: wěikēxué
lang: Czech
word: pavěda
lang: Czech
word: pseudověda
lang: Danish
word: pseudovidenskab
lang: Dutch
word: pseudowetenschap
lang: Esperanto
word: pseŭdoscienco
lang: Esperanto
word: falsscienco
lang: Estonian
word: pseudoteadus
lang: Finnish
word: pseudotiede
lang: Finnish
word: näennäistiede
lang: French
word: pseudo-science
lang: Georgian
word: ფსევდომეცნიერება
roman: psevdomecniereba
lang: German
word: Pseudowissenschaft
lang: Greek
word: ψευδοεπιστήμη
roman: psevdoepistími
lang: Gujarati
word: છદ્મવિજ્ઞાન
roman: chadmavijñān
lang: Gujarati
word: સ્યુડોસાયન્સમાં
roman: syuḍosāyansamā̃
lang: Hungarian
word: áltudomány
lang: Icelandic
word: hjáfræði
lang: Indonesian
word: ilmu semu
lang: Indonesian
word: pseudosains
lang: Italian
word: pseudoscienza
lang: Japanese
word: 疑似科学
roman: gijikagaku
lang: Kazakh
word: жалған ғылым
roman: jalğan ğylym
lang: Korean
word: 의사과학
roman: uisagwahak
lang: Korean
word: 유사과학
roman: yusagwahak
lang: Korean
word: 사이비과학
roman: saibigwahak
lang: Central Kurdish
word: زِڕزانِست
roman: zirrzanist
lang: Latvian
word: pseidozinātne
lang: Lithuanian
word: pseudomokslas
lang: Malayalam
word: കപടശാസ്ത്രം
roman: kapaṭaśāstraṁ
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: pseudovitenskap
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: pseudovitskap
lang: Persian
word: شبهعلم
lang: Middle Persian
word: -
roman: /⁠mānāgdānišn⁠/
lang: Polish
word: pseudonauka
lang: Portuguese
word: pseudociência
lang: Romanian
word: pseudoștiință
lang: Russian
word: псевдонау́ка
roman: psevdonaúka
lang: Russian
word: лженау́ка
roman: lženaúka
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: pseudoznanost
lang: Sicilian
word: psiuduscènzia
lang: Sicilian
word: scènzia fausa
lang: Slovak
word: paveda
lang: Slovene
word: psevdoznanost
lang: Spanish
word: pseudociencia
lang: Swedish
word: pseudovetenskap
lang: Tamil
word: போலி அறிவியல்
roman: pōli aṟiviyal
lang: Thai
word: วิทยาศาสตร์เทียม
lang: Turkish
word: sahte bilim
lang: Ukrainian
word: псевдонау́ка
roman: psevdonaúka
lang: Ukrainian
word: лженау́ка
roman: lženaúka
lang: Uzbek
word: soxta fan
lang: Vietnamese
word: ngụy khoa học
lang: Vietnamese
word: giả khoa học
lang: Welsh
word: ffugwyddor