scientophile

A person who likes science but is not necessarily a scientist.

Noun

  1. A person who likes science but is not necessarily a scientist.
    • Worse, they had no feeling for it, and they displayed this tone-deafness repeatedly in the full view of ASF's supposed audience of dedicated scientophiles as gathered up by a narrowly technocratic editor. - 2012, Algis...

Origin

From sciento- + -phile.

Forms

scientophiles