Usually means: Excessive belief in scientific authority.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. scientism: Merriam-Webster
  2. scientism: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. scientism: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. scientism: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Scientism, scientism: Wordnik
  6. scientism: Wiktionary
  7. scientism: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. scientism: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. scientism: Dictionary.com
  10. Scientism: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. scientism: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  12. scientism: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Ism Book (No longer online)

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. scientism: The Skeptic's Dictionary

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)
  3. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

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  1. scientism: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (scientism)

noun:  The belief that the scientific method and the assumptions and research methods of the physical sciences are applicable to all other disciplines (such as the humanities and social sciences), or that those other disciplines are not as valuable.
noun:  The belief that all truth is exclusively discovered through science.

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