scientocracy
English
Etymology
From science (Old French science, from Latin scientia (“knowledge”), from sciens, the present participle stem of scire (“know”)) + -cracy (Ancient Greek -κρατία (-kratía), from κράτος (krátos, “power, rule”)); first known use in 1887.
Noun
scientocracy (countable and uncountable, plural scientocracies)
- An elite community of scientists.
- 1887, Florence Caddy, Through the fields with Linnaeus: a chapter in Swedish history, volume 1, page 294:
- His lesson in Hamburg had taught him that a novus homo must not be arrogant when he enters the society of the scientocracy, and that he must not run himself rashly against vested interests.
- 1968, Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, Center occasional papers, volume 3, number 3, page 75:
- It could only appear through some dictatorial coup d'etat by a future scientocracy.
- 2000, Charles Edgley, A Nation of Meddlers, page 43:
- the roots of which lie in the curious marriage of the prohibitionist spirit and the new scientocracies that govern our lives.
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- The practice of basing public policies on science. A government of the people, but informed by scientists.
- 2009, Peter Ubel, Scientocracy: Policy making that reflects human nature.:
- When I talk about Scientocracy, then, I'm not talking about a world ruled by behavioral scientists, or any other kind of scientists. Instead, I am imagining a government of the people, but informed by scientists.
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Related terms
- scientocrat
- scientocratic
- technocracy
- technocrat
Translations
members of an elite community of scientists
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Anagrams
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