scientific language
Precise scholarly vocabulary
Scientific language is the vocabulary and style used to communicate research and technical knowledge.
It emphasizes precision, objectivity, and reproducibility—favoring passive constructions, specialized terminology, and hedged claims: The results suggest a correlation.
Scientific language avoids ambiguity and personal opinion, prioritizing clarity over elegance.
Outside academic contexts, the phrase sometimes describes unnecessarily technical or jargon-heavy speech: Cut the scientific language and just tell me what's wrong with my car.
- descriptionAccount of characteristics
- terminologySubject-specific vocabulary
- technical jargonSpecialized professional terminology
- syntaxRules for arranging words
- jargonSpecialized professional vocabulary
passive voice · technical writing · nomenclature · standardization · objectivity · mathematical notation · units · abbreviations · neologism · dissemination · argumentation · explanation · formal tone · prediction · hypothesis · formulae · taxonomy · citation style
- empiricismempiricism, positivism, empirical research, inductive reasoning, Vienna Circle
scientific languagecasual speech
Unstudied everyday language
colloquial language · everyday language · informal language · vernacular · slang
scientific languagepoetic language
Artful, evocative word choice
figurative language · persuasive language · metaphorical language · propaganda · sales talk
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