Pseudoscientific vs Unscience - What's the difference?
pseudoscientific | unscience |
Of, relating to, or employing pseudoscience; not scientific, though perhaps made to seem partially scientific.
* 1996 , Mark E. Ware, David E. Johnson, Handbook of Demonstrations and Activities in the Teaching of Psychology
* 2003 , Robert Todd Carroll, The skeptic's dictionary
That which is unscientific or pseudoscientific.
* 13?? , Geoffrey Chaucer, Boethius and Troilus
* 1900 , John Vosburgh Stevens (ed.), The Annual of Eclectic Medicine and Surgery
* 1973 , Janet Lembke, Bronze and Iron
As an adjective pseudoscientific
is of, relating to, or employing pseudoscience; not scientific, though perhaps made to seem partially scientific.As a noun unscience is
that which is unscientific or pseudoscientific.pseudoscientific
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Many postsecondary educators are concerned about the rising tide of pseudoscientific , fundamentally anti-intellectual belief among otherwise well educated Americans.
- Some pseudoscientific theories explain what nonbelievers cannot even observe, for example, orgone energy.
unscience
English
Noun
- And at the laste, yif that any wight wene a thing to ben other weyes thanne it is, it is nat only unscience , but it is deceivable opinioun ful diverse and fer fro the sothe of science.
- 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.
- Misapplication of this practical connection leads to such unsciences as astrology and alchemy and, with the Romans, augury.