QUACKERY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does quackery mean? 

• QUACKERY (noun)
  The noun QUACKERY has 2 senses:

1. medical practice and advice based on observation and experience in ignorance of scientific findings

2. the dishonesty of a charlatan

  Familiarity information: QUACKERY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• QUACKERY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Medical practice and advice based on observation and experience in ignorance of scientific findings

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

empiricism; quackery

Hypernyms ("quackery" is a kind of...):

medical practice (the practice of medicine)

Derivation:

quack (act as a medical quack or a charlatan)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The dishonesty of a charlatan

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

charlatanism; quackery

Hypernyms ("quackery" is a kind of...):

dishonesty; knavery (lack of honesty; acts of lying or cheating or stealing)

 Context examples 

It is all part and parcel of the same system of quackery and nonsense, for which I regret to say that the writer is notorious.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)