Synonyms for empiricism
Most common
folk medicine quackery charlatanry sensationalism aposteriorism
All synonyms
Noun
1. Quackery — medicine as practised by an empiric, founded on mere (personal or anecdotal) experience, without the aid of…
Definitions
- n. 1
Medicine as practised by an empiric, founded on mere (personal or anecdotal) experience, without the aid of science or a knowledge of principles.
Near-synonyms: folk medicine; quackery; charlatanry
Related words
- Word family
- empirical
- Other spellings
- empirism
Forms
- Plural
- empiricisms → quackeries, charlatanries, experiments, sensationalisms…
Example sentences
- charlatanry Don't be duped by this charlatanry, Yankev.
- sensationalism The sensationalism of this newspaper is cringeworthy.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| empiricism | rising | |
| quackery | falling | |
| charlatanry | steady | |
| sensationalism | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 8 letters
- quackery3
- 10 letters
- experiment4
- 11 letters
- charlatanry
- 13 letters
- aposteriorism
- 14 letters
- sensationalism6
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (quackery3 = 3 syllables).