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empiric

/ empiric /
adjective

Definitions & Examples

adjective Sense 1
relying on medical quackery
"empiric treatment"
Pertains to:
quackery empiricism
Domain:
archaism archaicism
adjective Sense 2
derived from experiment and observation rather than theory
"an empirical basis for an ethical theory"
"empirical laws"
"empirical data"
"an empirical treatment of a disease about which little is known"
Similar:
a posteriori confirmable verifiable falsifiable experiential existential experimental data-based
Opposites:
theoretical theoretic
Semantic Complexity
39%
Sense Count
2
Total Synonyms
8
Total Relationships
10
Times Searched
2
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a posteriori confirmable verifiable falsifiable experiential existential experimental data-based theoretical theoretic