Definition of PSEUDOSCIENCE

pseudoscience

Meanings

Plural: pseudosciences

Noun

  • an activity resembling science but based on fallacious assumptions
  • 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).
  • Fictitious science as portrayed in science fiction.

Origin / Etymology

From pseudo- + science, first attested in 1796, in reference to alchemy.

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