prescientific

English

Etymology 1

From pre- +‎ scientific.

Adjective

prescientific (not comparable)

1. Prior to the development of modern science.
   • 1926, James A.H. Murray, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, volume X, part I, page 248, column 1:

     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.

   • 2014 April 12, Michael Inwood, “Martin Heidegger: the philosopher who fell for Hitler [print version: Hitler's philosopher]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review)‎^[1], London, page R10:

     [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.

Etymology 2

Adjective

prescientific (not comparable)

1. (rare) Exhibiting or relating to prescience; prescient.

Anagrams

• interspecific