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Ubiquitous vs Systemic - What's the difference?

ubiquitous | systemic |

As adjectives the difference between ubiquitous and systemic

is that ubiquitous is being everywhere at once: omnipresent while systemic is embedded within and spread throughout and affecting a group, system, body, economy, market, or society as a whole.

ubiquitous

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Being everywhere at once: omnipresent.
    • To Hindus, Jews, Muslims and Christians, God is ubiquitous.
  • Seeming to appear everywhere at the same time.
  • Widespread; very prevalent.

    • Quotations

    * 1851 — *: One of the wild suggestions referred to, as at last coming to be linked with the White Whale in the minds of the superstitiously inclined, was the unearthly conceit that Moby Dick was ubiquitous ; that he had actually been encountered in opposite latitudes at one and the same instant of time. * 1927-1929' — *: I returned to the Ashram. The ubiquitous Chetaskumar was there too.

    Synonyms

    * (being everywhere ): omnipresent * (seeming to appear everywhere at the same time ): ever-present

    Derived terms

    * ubiquitously

    Related terms

    * ubiquarian * ubiquitin * ubiquity

    External links

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    systemic

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Embedded within and spread throughout and affecting a group, system, body, economy, market, or society as a whole.
  • (physiology) Pertaining to an entire organism.

    • Usage notes

    Not to be confused with .

    Antonyms

    * topical * endemic

    Related terms

    * system * systematic * systematization * systematize * systemic bias

    See also

    * embedded