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Meaning of subscientific | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C1

Definitions

Less than scientific; not attaining the rank of a science.

Examples

“Schemes of the strict accentual type explicitly rejected by Lowth are advocated without substantial modification at present; proposals are still subscientific, i.e., without replicable results and unsupported by a scholarly consensus.”
“Though basically subscientific in character, Babylonian mathematics demonstrates to what extent subscientific mathematics could mimic "scientific" mathematics[…]”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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