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English

Etymology

Coined by English polymath William Whewell in March 1834 in an anonymous review of Mary Somerville's book On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences in the Quarterly Review as a suggested replacement for, and later seriously introduced by him in 1840 as a more precise substitute for, the terms natural philosopher and man of science. Modeled after artist, from the Latin stem scientia (“knowledge”) with the suffix -ist.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sa?.?n.t?st/

Noun

scientist (plural scientists)

1. One whose activities make use of the scientific method to answer questions regarding the measurable universe. A scientist may be involved in original research, or make use of the results of the research of others.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

• citizen scientist
• citizen-scientist

Related terms

Descendants

• ? Portuguese: cientista

Translations

See also

• peer review

References

Further reading

• scientist on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Romanian

Etymology

From French scientiste

Noun

scientist m (plural scienti?ti)

1. scientist (advocate of scientism)

Declension

English

Etymology

From science +? -ism

Noun

scientism (countable and uncountable, plural scientisms)

1. The belief that the scientific method and the assumptions and research methods of the physical sciences are applicable to all other disciplines (such as the humanities and social sciences), or that those other disciplines are not as valuable.
   • 2007, Ted Cabal, The Apologetics Study Bible, B&H Publishing Group (?ISBN)

   • 2008, Peter Meusburger, Michael Welker, Edgar Wunder, Clashes of Knowledge: Orthodoxies and Heterodoxies in Science and Religion, Springer Science & Business Media (?ISBN), page 111

   • 2013, William Outhwaite, Habermas: A Critical Introduction, John Wiley & Sons (?ISBN)

   • 2013, David Held, Introduction to Critical Theory: Horkheimer to Habermas, John Wiley & Sons (?ISBN)

   • 2014, Raymond Tallis, Aping Mankind: Neuromania, Darwinitis and the Misrepresentation of Humanity, Routledge (?ISBN), page 15

2. The belief that all truth is exclusively discovered through science.

Derived terms

• scientistic

Translations

Further reading

• scientism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• incestism

Romanian

Etymology

From French scientisme

Noun

scientism n (uncountable)

1. scientism

Declension