Scientism

Synonyms for "scientism" (32 found)

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Closest matches (7)

Noun(2 words)
applied scientismepistemic rationalism
down-to-earthnessearthinessfreedom from illusionhardheadednesslack of feelings

Strong matches (9)

Related words (16)

Noun(7 words)
science chauvinismscientific absolutismscientific chauvinismscientific dogmatismscientific ideologyscientific overreachscientific rationalism

Related word relations

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More general

3 entries

More specific

4 entries
applied scientismdeterminismreductionismscientific determinism

Collocations

6 entries
scientism critiquescientism discoursescientism dogmascientism ideologyscientism movementscientism rhetoric

Inflections

1 entries

Derivations

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Translations

16 translations across 14 languages.

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Catalan

1 entries
  • cientisme noun (belief)

Chinese Mandarin

3 entries
  • 唯科學主義 /唯科学主义 noun (belief)
  • 科學主義 /科学主义 noun (belief)
  • 科學至上主義 /科学至上主义 noun (belief)

Dutch

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  • sciëntisme noun (belief)

Finnish

1 entries
  • skientismi noun (belief)

French

1 entries
  • scientisme noun (belief)

Galician

1 entries
  • cientifismo noun (belief)

German

1 entries
  • Szientismus noun (belief)

Greek

1 entries
  • επιστημονισμός noun (belief)

Irish

1 entries
  • eolaíochas noun (belief)

Italian

1 entries
  • scientismo noun (belief)

Polish

1 entries
  • scjentyzm noun (belief)

Portuguese

1 entries
  • cientificismo noun (belief)

Russian

1 entries
  • сциенти́зм noun (belief)

Welsh

1 entries
  • gwyddonyddiaeth noun (belief)

Sample sentences

8 total sentences available.

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There is a new Cult of Scientism, a dogmatic circle jerk of intellectual bullies who insist the only "science" that's true is their own selected brand of corporate-sponsored science.

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In Scientism, the paradigm is that Science can shape our environment and bodies to what we want. If we have the ability of transportation, we can move to a different land, or radically even, to a different planet, altogether.

Source: tatoeba (10690315)

Finally, with good reason, this psychology aims to be a psychology of a purely empiriological type. It is pervaded and overwhelmed on every side, however, by a pseudometaphysics of the most vulgar character, which Freud is all the less anxious to dispense with as he imagines he has no philosophy or metaphysics at all. I say pseudometaphysics of the most vulgar type, because it combines all the prejudices of deterministic, mechanistic scientism with all the prejudices of irrationalism.

Source: wiktionary

This claim, espoused by scientific naturalists, is called scientism, the view that science is the paradigm of truth and rationality. There are two forms of scientism: strong and weak. Strong scientism […]

Source: wiktionary

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