scientificityn.
/ˌsʌɪəntᵻˈfɪsᵻti/, U.S. /ˌsaɪən(t)əˈfɪsᵻdi/ The quality of being scientific; scientific character.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > branch of knowledge > systematic knowledge, science > [noun] > character or quality
empiricalness1655
scientificness1663
scientificalness1786
scientism1870
scientificity1888
scientificality1907
1888 Med. Advance (Chicago) July 9 The sooner it is settled that men who are everlastingly seeking to be scientific and demonstrating this scientificity by chemistry, pathology and the microscope are not Homœopaths,..the better it will be.
1938 Philos. Sci. 5 151 Our next step is to see what sort of immortal scientificity Margenau-Indra achieves out of it all.
1976 T. Eagleton Crit. & Ideol. i. 32 A mistaking of scientificity for positivism..links him..with the Romantic ‘anti-scientism’ of Lukács and the Frankfurt school.
2003 G. Newton From Victoria to Viagra (Wellcome Trust) 56/2 Bacteriology added weight to medicine's claims to scientificity and turned sick patients into infected organisms.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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