natural philosophy

Questions about natural philosophy

What does natural philosophy mean?

natural philosophy means "the science of matter and energy and their interactions".

What is another word for natural philosophy?

Close synonyms include physics. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is natural philosophy a common word?

natural philosophy is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.