Synthetic vs Systemic - What's the difference?
synthetic | systemic |
Of, or relating to synthesis.
(chemistry) Produced by synthesis instead of being isolated from a natural source (but may be identical to a product so obtained).
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(grammar) Pertaining to the joining of bound morphemes in a word. Compare analytic.
A synthetic compound.
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Embedded within and spread throughout and affecting a group, system, body, economy, market, or society as a whole.
(physiology) Pertaining to an entire organism.
As adjectives the difference between synthetic and systemic
is that synthetic is of, or relating to synthesis while systemic is embedded within and spread throughout and affecting a group, system, body, economy, market, or society as a whole.As a noun synthetic
is a synthetic compound.synthetic
English
Adjective
(en adjective)A new prescription, passage=As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one.}}
Derived terms
* nucleosynthetic * syntheticismNoun
(en noun)citation
