Linguistic prescriptivism is unscientific, and is criticized as such by those who are actual linguists.
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Unscientific
Synonyms for "unscientific" (35 found)
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2 entriesTranslations
17 translations across 16 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- joshkencor adj (not scientific)
Bulgarian
1 entries- ненау́чен adj (not scientific)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 不科學的 /不科学的 adj (not scientific)
Danish
1 entries- uvidenskabelig adj (not scientific)
Dutch
1 entries- onwetenschappelijk adj (not scientific)
Esperanto
1 entries- nescienca adj (not scientific)
German
1 entries- unwissenschaftlich adj (not scientific)
Japanese
1 entries- 非科学的 adj (not scientific)
Kazakh
1 entries- ғылыми емес adj (not scientific)
Korean
1 entries- 비과학적 adj (not scientific)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- uvitenskapelig adj (not scientific)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- uvitskapeleg adj (not scientific)
- uvitskapleg adj (not scientific)
Polish
1 entries- nienaukowy adj (not scientific)
Romanian
1 entries- neștiințific adj (not scientific)
Russian
1 entries- ненау́чный adj (not scientific)
Spanish
1 entries- acientífico adj (not scientific)
Sample sentences
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To claim sex is binary requires ignoring intersex people, which is unscientific and purely ideological.
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I.P. Pavlov proved the absolutely unscientific nature of the arguments of bourgeois physiologists and psychologists about the "soul" as an intangible carrier of mental phenomena.
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The study was deemed unscientific.
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