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Unscience vs Inscience - What's the difference?

unscience | inscience |

As nouns the difference between unscience and inscience

is that unscience is that which is unscientific or pseudoscientific while inscience is (obsolete) ignorance; the lack of knowledge.

unscience

English

Noun

  • That which is unscientific or pseudoscientific.
  • * 13?? , Geoffrey Chaucer, Boethius and Troilus
    • 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.
  • * 1900 , John Vosburgh Stevens (ed.), The Annual of Eclectic Medicine and Surgery
    • 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.
  • * 1973 , Janet Lembke, Bronze and Iron
    • Misapplication of this practical connection leads to such unsciences as astrology and alchemy and, with the Romans, augury.

    inscience

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (obsolete) ignorance; the lack of knowledge