cientificismo
Letters
13 characters
Language
Portuguese
word origin
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0
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cientificismo is aPortuguesenoun. It means: doutrina de matriz positivista que preconiza a superioridade da ciência sobre qualquer outra forma de conhecimento (metafísica, religiosa etc.) por ser a única forma de conhecimento verdadeiramente... Pronounced /si.ẽ.ʧi.fi.ˈsiʒ.mu/.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cientificismo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /si.ẽ.ʧi.fi.ˈsiʒ.mu/ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Portuguese entry for cientificismo is 13 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /si.ẽ.ʧi.fi.ˈsiʒ.mu/. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for cientificismo in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is cientificismo, spelled C-I-E-N-T-I-F-I-C-I-S-M-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1doutrina de matriz positivista que preconiza a superioridade da ciência sobre qualquer outra forma de conhecimento (metafísica, religiosa etc.) por ser a única forma de conhecimento verdadeiramente rigorosa e prática
- 2pensamento que defende a aplicação do método científico das ciências naturais às demais áreas humanas (ciências humanas, artes etc.)
- 3tendência a valorizar e a aplicar excessivamente o pensamento dito científico a qualquer área da vida
- 4termo, expressão, neologismo próprio da ciência
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