"Scientology" meaning in English

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Proper name

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Etymology: From the Latin stem scientia (“knowledge”), from scio (“I know”) + -logy. Etymology templates: {{uder|en|la|-}} Latin, {{m|la|scientia||knowledge}} scientia (“knowledge”), {{m|la|scio||I know}} scio (“I know”), {{suffix|en||-logy}} + -logy Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Scientology
  1. A belief system with certain religious aspects, developed in 1952, focused on the teachings of L. Ron Hubbard. Wikipedia link: Scientology Categories (topical): Scientology Related terms: Church of Scientology, Scientologist, $cientology Translations (belief system developed by L. Ron Hubbard): 山達基 (Chinese Cantonese), 山达基 (saan¹ daat⁶ gei¹) (Chinese Cantonese), 山達基 (Chinese Mandarin), 山达基 (shāndájī) (Chinese Mandarin), scientologie [feminine] (Czech), scientologi [common-gender] (Danish), saientoloogia (Estonian), skientologia (Finnish), scientologie [feminine] (French), ciencioloxía [feminine] (Galician), σαϊεντολογία (saïentología) [feminine] (Greek), סיינטולוגיה (sayentológya) [feminine] (Hebrew), szcientológia (Hungarian), Vísindakirkjan [feminine] (Icelandic), ciencologio (Ido), サイエントロジー (saientorojī) (Japanese), саентоло́гија (saentológija) [feminine] (Macedonian), scjentologia [feminine] (Polish), cientologia [feminine] (Portuguese), саентоло́гия (sajentológija) [feminine] (Russian), сайентоло́гия (sajentológija) [feminine] (Russian), сцијентоло̀гија [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), scijentològija [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), cienciología [feminine] (Spanish), scientologi [common-gender] (Swedish)

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