Systemic vs Endemic - What's the difference?
systemic | endemic |
Embedded within and spread throughout and affecting a group, system, body, economy, market, or society as a whole.
(physiology) Pertaining to an entire organism.
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:
Endemic is a antonym of systemic.
As adjectives the difference between systemic and endemic
is that systemic is embedded within and spread throughout and affecting a group, system, body, economy, market, or society as a whole while endemic is native to a particular area or culture; originating where it occurs.As a noun endemic is
an individual or species that is endemic to a region.systemic
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Adjective
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Not to be confused with .Antonyms
* topical * endemicSee also
* embeddedendemic
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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.