Widespread vs Pandemic - What's the difference?
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Affecting a large area (e.g. the entire land or body); broad in extent; widely diffused.
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*:It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar.
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(medicine) Epidemic over a wide geographical area and affecting a large proportion of the population.
A pandemic disease; a disease that hits a wide geographical area and affects a large proportion of the population.
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Widespread is a related term of pandemic.
As adjectives the difference between widespread and pandemic
is that widespread is affecting a large area (eg the entire land or body); broad in extent; widely diffused while pandemic is widespread; general.As a noun pandemic is
a pandemic disease; a disease that hits a wide geographical area and affects a large proportion of the population.widespread
English
Adjective
Our banks are out of control, passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic
Synonyms
* extensive, pervasive, prevalent, ubiquitous, universalAntonyms
* limitedpandemic
English
(wikipedia pandemic)Adjective
(en adjective)- World War I might have continued indefinitely if not for a pandemic outbreak of influenza.
Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=In his first book since the 2008 essay collection Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature , David Quammen looks at the natural world from yet another angle: the search for the next human pandemic , what epidemiologists call “the next big one.”}}