non-scientificadj.
/ˌnɒnsʌɪənˈtɪfɪk/, U.S. /ˈˌnɑnˌsaɪənˈtɪfɪk/ Not scientific; spec. (a) having no training or background in science; (b) not based on scientific principles.
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1849 Westm. & Foreign Q. Rev. 50 127 The Lepidoptera..offers, perhaps, some of the most attractive insects, whether to the scientific or the non-scientific entomologist.
1865 What is Wine vii. 9 A crude and non-scientific treatment of the must.
1937 Discovery Mar. 94/2 The non-scientific layman.
1949 J. S. Huxley Soviet Genetics & World Sci. i. 23 Michurinism is..an essentially non-scientific or pre-scientific doctrine.
1968 R. A. Lyttleton Myst. Solar Syst. vii. 216 A number of suggested causes of a non-scientific kind.
1991 S. J. Gould Bully for Brontosaurus viii. 126 The issues and particulars of evolution that pose conundrums for well-informed nonscientific readers.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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