As nouns the difference between academic and postcolonialism
is that
academic is while
postcolonialism is an era or attitude relating to the period after the settlement of one country by another, or very broadly, after the 1960s, when many colonised countries gained their independence.
As an adjective academic
is .
academic English
Alternative forms
* academick (obsolete)
* acad, (abbreviation)
* Academic
Adjective
( en adjective)
Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato; as, the academic sect or philosophy. [ ]
Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning; also a scholarly society or organization. [ ]
* academic courses -
* academical study -
Theoretical or speculative; abstract; scholarly, literary or classical, in distinction to scientific or vocational; having no practical importance. [ ]
- I have always had an academic interest in hacking.
(art) Conforming to set rules and traditions; conventional; formalistic. [ ]
So scholarly as to be unaware of the outside world; lacking in worldliness.
Subscribing to the architectural standards of (Vitruvius).
Derived terms
* academic advantage
* academic disadvantage
* academic institution
* academic question
* academic degree
* academic discipline
Related terms
* academia
* academical
* academically
* academically disadvantaged
* academicals
* academism
* academist
* academy
Noun
( en noun)
(usually, capitalized) A follower of Plato, a Platonist.
A senior member of an academy, college, or university; a person who attends an academy; a person engaged in scholarly pursuits; one who is academic in practice. [ ]
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A member of the Academy; an academician. [ ]
*, II.4.2.ii:
- Carneades the academick , when he was to write against Zeno the stoick, purged himself with hellebor first […].
(pluralonly) Academic dress; academicals. [ ]
(pluralonly) Academic studies. [ ]
Derived terms
See also
* scientific
References
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postcolonialism English
Alternative forms
*post-colonialism
Noun
An era or attitude relating to the period after the settlement of one country by another, or very broadly, after the 1960s, when many colonised countries gained their independence.
An academic discipline that attempts to analyse, explain, and respond to the cultural legacies of colonialism and imperialism.
Related terms
*postcolonial
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