Domestic vs Endemic - What's the difference?
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Of or relating to the home.
* 1994 , George Whitmore, Getting Rid of Robert'' in ''Violet Quill :
Of or relating to activities normally associated with the home, wherever they actually occur.
(of an animal) Kept by someone, for example as a farm animal or a pet.
* 1890 , US Bureau of Animal Industry, Annual report v 6/7, 1889/90
Internal to a specific country.
* 1996', Robert O. Keohane, Helen V. Milner, ''Internationalization and '''Domestic Politics :
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= A house servant; a maid; a household worker.
* Mary Romero, Maid in the U.S.A. - New standards of cleanliness increased the workload for domestic s.
A domestic dispute, whether verbal or violent
* 2005:' Bellingham-Whatcom County Commission Against Domestic Violence, ''Domestic Violence in Whatcom County'' (read on the Whatcom County website at on 20 May 2006) - The number of “verbal ' domestic s” (where law enforcement determines that no assault has occurred and where no arrest is made), decreased significantly.
Native to a particular area or culture; originating where it occurs.
(Especially of plants and animals.) Peculiar to a particular area or region; not found in other places.
(Especially of diseases.) Prevalent in a particular area or region.
* 1998 , Gillian Catriona Ramchand, Deconstructing the Lexicon , in Miriam Butt and Wilhelm Geuder, eds. “The Projection of Arguments”
An individual or species that is endemic to a region.
* 2004 , (Richard Fortey), The Earth , Folio Society 2011, p. 34:
As adjectives the difference between domestic and endemic
is that domestic is of or relating to the home while endemic is native to a particular area or culture; originating where it occurs.As nouns the difference between domestic and endemic
is that domestic is a house servant; a maid; a household worker while endemic is an individual or species that is endemic to a region.domestic
English
(wikipedia domestic)Alternative forms
* domestick (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- “Dan’s not as domestic as you," I commented rather nastily.
- It shall be the duty of any owner or person in charge of any domestic animal or animals.
- The proportion of international economic flows relative to domestic ones.
Boundary problems, passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.}}
Synonyms
* (of or relating to the home) bourgeois, civilized, comfortable * (kept by someone) domesticatedAntonyms
* (of or relating to the home) adventurous, social * (local) foreign * (kept by someone) wild, feralDerived terms
* domestic cat * domestic hot water * domestic violenceNoun
(en noun)Anagrams
* ----endemic
English
Alternative forms
* endemick (obsolete)Adjective
(Wikipedia) (-)- Kangaroos are endemic to Australia.
- The endemic religion of Easter Island arrived with the Polynesian settlers.
- Malaria is endemic to the tropics.
- These problems are endemic to the theory of thematic roles as currently conceived, because the classification it implies simply does not correspond to legitimate linguistic semantic definitions.
Usage notes
An endemic disease is one which is constantly present in a given area, though usually at low levels, whereas an epidemic is widespread and has a high incidence. A sporadic disease occurs now and then at low levels. * (English Citations of "endemic")Synonyms
* (native to a particular area) native * (peculiar to a particular area) indigenousAntonyms
* (native to a particular area) alien, introduced * (localized) systemicNoun
(en noun)- The species that appeared as a consequence were endemics ; that is, they were found nowhere else in the world.