scientificnessn.
/ˌsʌɪənˈtɪfᵻknəs/, U.S. /ˌsaɪənˈtɪfᵻknəs/ The quality of being scientific.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > branch of knowledge > systematic knowledge, science > [noun] > character or quality
empiricalness1655
scientificness1663
scientificalness1786
scientism1870
scientificity1888
scientificality1907
1663 E. Waterhouse Fortescutus Illustratus v. 88 Ignorance make a fortune where knowledg onely discouers art, this is the lot of scientifiquenesse often, but not always.
1849 W. Smith Dict. Greek & Rom. Biogr. & Mythol. III. 1291/2 With a more comprehensive work on Dialectic..there were connected separate treatises on science, on scientificness..and others.
1877 Indian Jrnl. (Eufaula, Indian Territory) 21 June As these languages now are, their literature must be exceedingly cramped, and for scientificness their inadequacy would be still greater.
1915 Musical Q. 1 13 I would not imply that musicians are wholly devoid of scientificness.
1976 P. Clark in C. Howson Method & Appraisal in Physical Sci. 93 Lakatos first pointed out the possibility that a research programme could be so progressive as to set itself up as a standard of scientificness.
2010 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 25 Sept. 12 Neuroscience..is now seen to outrank psychology in an implicit hierarchy of ‘scientificness’.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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