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Generalist vs Particularist - What's the difference?

generalist | particularist |

As nouns the difference between generalist and particularist

is that generalist is a person with a broad general knowledge, especially one with more than superficial knowledge in several areas and the ability to combine ideas from diverse fields while particularist is one who holds to particularism.

As an adjective particularist is

adhering to particularism.

generalist

English

(wikipedia generalist)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person with a broad general knowledge, especially one with more than superficial knowledge in several areas and the ability to combine ideas from diverse fields.
  • (medicine) A general practitioner.
  • (ecology) Species which can thrive in a wide variety of environmental conditions.

    • Antonyms

    * specialist

    particularist

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who holds to particularism.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (theology) Adhering to particularism.
  • Showing excessive devotion to one's own region, nation, party etc.; partisan.
  • * 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 272:
    • The province's identity was fixed on traditionalist and historical attachment to particularist privilege.

    Antonyms

    * universalist

    Related terms

    * particularistic