antiscience

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adjective

Opposed to science and scientific progress.

Scrabble 15

Meanings

adjectiveantiscience (not comparable)
  1. not comparableOpposed to science and scientific progress.

    “The playbook presents an antiscience, antidata, and antimedicine agenda,” according to a piece last year by Boston University researchers in JAMA.

    2025 February 21, Stephanie Armour, “Trump’s team is using Project 2025 as a blueprint to make changes to federal health programs”, in CNN
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    Isaacson reports that Musk’s fractured relationship with Jenna, who is trans, partly led to Musk’s rightward turn toward libertarianism and questioning what he considers the “woke-mind-virus, which is fundamentally antiscience, antimerit, and antihuman.”

    2023 September 12, Paul Glader, “Four takeaways from Walter Isaacson’s biography of Elon Musk”, in CNN

    Synonyms: antiscientific · Antonyms: proscience, proscientific

nounantiscience (countable and uncountable, plural antisciences)

plural antisciences

  1. countableuncountableThe abuse or rejection of traditional science; scholarship in which traditional science is abused or disregarded.

    Genealogies are antisciences. Of course, genealogy is not an unproblematic enterprise, since it is a struggle against forms of power that are associated with certain forms of (scientific) knowledge.

    2007, Martin Griffiths, International relations theory for the twenty-first century, page 95

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveOpposed to science and scientific progress.

Origin

  1. Englishanti-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*sek-?
  3. Proto-Indo-European*skey-
  4. Latinsciō
  5. Latinsciēns
  6. Latinscientia
  7. Old Frenchscience
  8. Middle Englishscience
  9. Englishscience
  10. Englishantiscience

From anti- + science.

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Translations

Portuguese anticiência, anticiência
  • anticiênciaopposed to science and scientific progress
  • anticiênciathe abuse or rejection of traditional science
Spanish anticiencia
  • anticienciaopposed to science and scientific progress
Ukrainian антинауко́вий
  • антинауко́вий (antynaukóvyj)opposed to science and scientific progress
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APA

antiscience. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/antiscience

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“antiscience.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/antiscience. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “antiscience,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/antiscience.

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