pseudoscientific

English

Etymology

From pseudoscience +‎ -ific, by analogy with scientific.

Adjective

pseudoscientific (comparative more pseudoscientific, superlative most pseudoscientific)

1. Of, relating to, or employing pseudoscience; not scientific, though purporting to be scientific.
   • 1983 August 13, Mark McHarry, “FBI”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 5, page 4:

     […] another example of the desire to control deviant lifestyles: the preparation by the FBI of pseudoscientific "profiles" that purport to describe the murderers.

   • 1996, Mark E. Ware, David E. Johnson, Handbook of Demonstrations and Activities in the Teaching of Psychology:

     Many postsecondary educators are concerned about the rising tide of pseudoscientific, fundamentally anti-intellectual belief among otherwise well educated Americans.

   • 2003, Robert Todd Carroll, The skeptic's dictionary:

     Some pseudoscientific theories explain what nonbelievers cannot even observe, for example, orgone energy.

Derived terms

• pseudoscientifical
• pseudoscientifically
• pseudoscientificalness
• pseudoscientificness

Related terms

• pseudomedical
• pseudoprofessional
• pseudoscience
• pseudoscientism
• pseudoscientist
• pseudoscientistic

Translations

of, relating to, or employing pseudoscience

• Belarusian: псеўданавуко́вы (psjeŭdanavukóvy)
• Catalan: pseudocientífic
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 偽科學的／伪科学的 (zh) (wěikēxué de)

• Czech: pavědecký m, pseudovědecký m
• Danish: pseudovidenskabelig
• Dutch: pseudowetenschappelijk (nl)
• Esperanto: pseŭdoscienca
• Finnish: pseudotieteellinen (fi), näennäistieteellinen (fi)
• French: pseudo-scientifique (fr), pseudoscientifique (fr)
• Georgian: ფსევდომეცნიერული (psevdomecnieruli)
• German: pseudowissenschaftlich (de), afterwissenschaftlich, scheinwissenschaftlich
• Hungarian: áltudományos (hu)
• Ido: pseudociencala (io)
• Japanese: 疑似科学的 (gijikagakuteki)
• Kazakh: жалған ғылыми (jalğan ğylymi), жалған ғылымдық (jalğan ğylymdyq)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: pseudovitenskapelig

  Nynorsk: pseudovitskapeleg, pseudovitskapleg

• Polish: pseudonaukowy (pl)
• Portuguese: pseudocientífico
• Russian: псевдонау́чный (ru) (psevdonaúčnyj)
• Spanish: pseudocientífico (es)
• Swedish: pseudovetenskaplig (sv)
• Ukrainian: псевдонауко́вий (psevdonaukóvyj)