vetenskap

== Swedish == === Etymology === From Low German wetenskap, wetenschap, wetenschop, from weten (“to know”) +‎ -schop (“-ship”), equivalent to veta +‎ -skap. First attested in c. 1620. Compare Danish videnskab, Norwegian vitenskap, Dutch wetenschap, German Wissenschaft. === Pronunciation === === Noun === vetenskap c science, scholarly knowledge, scholarship (collective discipline of learning acquired through any scholarly method; totality of knowledge) any academic discipline; in general, the sciences and humanities taken as a whole ==== Usage notes ==== Vetenskap has a much broader meaning than the English word science. While science refers to systematically acquired, objective knowledge obtained through a particular methodology (such as the scientific method), and includes only natural sciences, social sciences, and formal sciences; vetenskap also includes the humanities and philosophy and refers to learning and knowledge in general, whether obtained through scientific or non-scientific means. For example, writing a scholarly book about an author's life and works is vetenskap but not "science" in the English sense. ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== vetskap ==== See also ==== forskning (“scientific research”) === References === “vetenskap”, in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker [Dictionaries of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish) vetenskap in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)