parascience
/ˌparəˈsʌɪəns/noun
The field of study concerned with phenomena assumed to be beyond the scope of scientific inquiry, or for which no scientific explanation exists. Also: a subject, method, etc., purporting to be scientific but regarded as unorthodox or unacceptable by the scientific community; an ‘alternative’ science.
Origin
1950s; earliest use found in Mind. From para- + science.
- asthenospheric
- (as) thick as a brick
- (as) thick as poundies
- (as) thick as thieves
- (as) thick as two (short) planks (or as a plank)
- (as) thin as a rake
- asthma
- asthmatic
- asthmatically
- Asti
- a sticky wicket
- a stiff upper lip
- astigmatic
- astigmatism
- astilbe
- astir
- Asti Spumante
- a stitch in time saves nine
- ASTM
- ASTMS
- as to
- a stone's throw
- Aston, Francis William
- astonish
- astonished