unscience

That which is unscientific or pseudoscientific.

Noun

  1. That which is unscientific or pseudoscientific.
    • 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. - 1900, John Vosburgh Stevens, editor, The Annual of Eclectic...
    • Misapplication of this practical connection leads to such unsciences as astrology and alchemy and, with the Romans, augury. - 1973, Janet Lembke, Bronze and Iron:

Origin

From Middle English unscience (“false knowledge or understanding”), equivalent to un- + science.

Forms

unsciences

Related

pseudoscience