Unscience

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    That which is unscientific or pseudoscientific. countable, uncountable

    "It has been used in medicine from time immemorial; but until recently its use was nothing more than a species of mere unscience, shadowed in mystery."

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"It has been used in medicine from time immemorial; but until recently its use was nothing more than a species of mere unscience, shadowed in mystery."

Etymology

From Middle English unscience (“false knowledge or understanding”), equivalent to un- + science.

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