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Definition of Pseudoscience

1. Noun. An activity resembling science but based on fallacious assumptions.

Definition of Pseudoscience

1. Noun. Any body of knowledge purported to be scientific or supported by science but which fails to comply with the scientific method. ¹

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Definition of Pseudoscience

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pseudoscience

Literary usage of Pseudoscience

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1922)
"They clamor for pseudoscience or pornographic literature. The authors who cater to this public have hardly evolved beyond the illiterate story-tellers of an ..."

2. American Wit and Humor by Joel Chandler Harris (1907)
"A pseudoscience consists of a nomenclature, ... A pseudoscience does not necessarily consist wholly of lies. It may contain many truths, and even valuable ..."

3. The world's wit and humor: an encyclopedia of the classic wit and humor of by Lionel Strachey (1905)
"A pseudoscience consists of a nomenclature, with a self-adjusting arrangement, ... A pseudoscience does not necessarily consist wholly of lies. ..."

4. The world's wit and humor: an encyclopedia of the classic wit and humor of by Lionel Strachey (1905)
"A pseudoscience consists of a nomenclature, with a self-adjusting arrangement, ... A pseudoscience does not necessarily consist wholly of lies. ..."

5. The World's Wit and Humor: An Encyclopedia of the Classic Wit and Humor of by Lionel Strachey (1906)
"A pseudoscience consists of a nomenclature, with a self-adjusting arrangement, ... A pseudoscience does not necessarily consist wholly of lies. ..."

6. Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor by Thomas L. Masson (1903)
"A SHORT LECTURE ON PHRENOLOGY Read to the Boarders at Our Breakfast Table I shall begin, my friends, with the definition of a pseudoscience. ..."

7. Organic Lies: Misconceptions of the United States Organic Act in America and by Mary Choate (2007)
"If, for whatever reason, the reader hesitates to disbelieve the metaphysics and pseudoscience of Biodynamics, they are encouraged to undertake their own ..."

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