endemic
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- adjective
- /ɛnˈdɛmɪk/
- I could practically smell the stone, dirt, and smoke endemic to those places in winter.
- endemic region
- endemic area
- endemic disease
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Watch on YouTubeSo that the denial of trauma is endemic to medical practice and in this society.
- So that the denial of trauma is endemic to medical practice and in this society.
- So there's a like an ambient level of human loneliness that's just endemic to being us.
- Imposter syndrome is an endemic problem.
- And so our agenda today is how to think about the best responses to endemic and permanent wage insecurity.
- And then he says, this seems to me, here's where the peculiar danger, the endemic evil of theological utterance lies.
- So keep logging in and keep helping us there, particularly now we move into this endemic phase.
- I remember travelling once in a part of the world where narcissism seems to be quite endemic.
- However, the gas lighting and the power imbalance that is so endemic in narcissistic relationships, well, that's not going anywhere.
- And that is a very deep, deeply endemic feature of society, as so many other topics are that you have addressed in your books.
- He also thinks that this is particularly endemic in modern times.
- So the worst case is it's it's endemic, it's seasonal, you get it.
- Address the problem that's that's actually otherwise an endemic problem for everybody.
Examples
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Corruption continues to be endemic at all levels of the Afghan government.
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And I must emphasize that corruption grew and became endemic during the years of the sanctions.
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We also recorded whether each plant or animal species was endemic to China and whether it was threatened.
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We're learning that moral injury is endemic to warfare.
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At this point Greece is very poor with endemic corruption.
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All travelers to endemic areas should be advised against consumption of unpasteurized dairy products.
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The okapi is not the only unusual animal endemic to the forest areas of northeastern Zaire.
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Darwin's own Galapagos house is a classic example: more than sixty endemic species of the family Bulimulidae.
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Approximately 50% of patients initially hospitalized for coccidioidomycosis resided in one of the six endemic region counties.
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Many species of birds are endemic to the island and can only be found there.
Synonyms
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Living or growing naturally in a place and not moved there from somewhere else
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Formed naturally in the place where it is found and not moved from elsewhere
Living naturally in the place where it is found
Native to the place where it is found
Often present in a particular place or group
Antonyms
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Unusual and interesting because it comes from another country or is different from what people know
Compounds
- Specialized
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A disease that occurs regularly in a particular place or group of people
- Specialized
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A disease caused by bacteria spread by flea bites that causes fever and rash
How Local
Surface Forms
Morphology
endemic = en + dem + ic
The word contains the bound elements en- (in) + dem- (people) + -ic, so speakers familiar with 'demo-/dem-' in words like 'democracy' may recognise a connection, but these parts are not standalone productive words in modern English and the exact sense 'native to a place' is not fully derivable by an average B1 learner.
Etymology
Endemic comes from Greek parts en- 'in' and demos 'people', and you can see the same root in democracy. So when something is endemic to a region, it is 'in' that place or among that people, meaning it belongs there or is regularly found there.