Prescientific
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Prescientific is an adjective meaning Before the development of modern science.
Meaning
Before the development of modern science.
More Meanings
- (rare) Exhibiting or relating to prescience; prescient.
Example Sentences
It is not improbable that, in some locality where tram-roads were a novelty, their name may have been associated in folk-etymology or by pre-scientific etymologers with that of the engineer.
[Martin] Heidegger's concern […] was with ontology, the nature of beings, above all humans. The central question for him was "What is being? What is it for something to be?" He tackled this question not by way of the sciences, but by way of an examination of our prescientific daily life. We are, he argued, not cut off from the world by our mental processes: we are "in the world", in direct contact with our surroundings.
Antonyms for prescientific
Common opposites include postscientific.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include pretechnological, prepsychological, prephilosophical, prepsychology, preartistic, premythological.
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