scientism
/ˈsʌɪəntɪz(ə)m
/noun [mass noun] rare
1Thought or expression regarded as characteristic of scientists.
1.1Excessive belief in the power of scientific knowledge and techniques.Indeed, unity is an indispensable plank in the doctrine of scientism, the philosophical underpinning of totalitarian regimes....
- Philosophy at its best nurtures a healthy, non-destructive scepticism, and this kind of attitude towards science will serve to protect us against the excesses of scientism much more than a wholesale anti-scientific outlook.
- Our intellectual culture demands that every idea or phenomenon be subjected to the unrelenting rigour of rationalism, or excesses of scientism.
Derivatives
scientistic
- That wealth allows us to indulge in what are often goofily scientistic attempts to stack up quantitative ‘knowledge’ about men's minds.
- Perhaps we shall begin to think again about our secularised, scientistic, self-actualising world view.
- There is no National Association for the Advancement of Scientism, and in fact there is not even a word to label a person who engages in scientism (engaging in scientistic behavior doesn't make you a scientist).
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