antiscience
adjective, noun
antiscience is an adjective meaning “Opposed to science and scientific progress” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-N-T-I-S-C-I-E-N-C-E, and it appears about once in every 76 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does antiscience mean?
adjective
- 1
Opposed to science and scientific progress.
noun
- 1
The abuse or rejection of traditional science; scholarship in which traditional science is abused or disregarded.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of antiscience
- antisciences plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is antiscience?
Antiscience appears about once in every 76 million words in written English, the 275,970th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Antiscience in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense opposed to science and scientific progress:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | anticiência |
| Spanish | anticiencia |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does antiscience come from?
From anti- + science.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).