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English
Etymology
From pseudoscience + -ific, by analogy with scientific.
Adjective
pseudoscientific (comparative more pseudoscientific, superlative most pseudoscientific)
- 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
Translations
of, relating to, or employing pseudoscience