Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The academic community; academe.
Wiktionary
- n. The scientific and cultural community engaged in higher education and research, taken as a whole.
- n. Continuous study at higher education institutions; scholarship.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the academic world
Etymologies
- New Latin acadēmīa, from Latin, the Academy; see academy. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Where in academia is incompetence more evident than in Economics departments?”
“The difference between Continental Europe and the U.S. that led to such a change in academia is that postwar leftism in Europe was obsessed with class.”
“The situation in academia is equally exhausting, with academics overburdened with demands for teaching, administration and research.”
“Actually the publishing industry in academia is well due for a correction, in a broad sense.”
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“The crunch in academia is very real and has been steadily worsening for decades.”
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“And on the larger scale, the issue of the role that academia plays on Wall Street and the role that Wall Street plays in academia is not widely known.”
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“Anyone who works in academia is aware of this class structure, and very few people are happy about it.”
“The trend in academia is to hire adjuncts instead of full faculty, but here and there there are exceptions.”
“To me, the next gauntlet to throw down to the critics, at least those who come from within academia, is to sketch out a program of “conservative” scholarly and pedagogical practice in the humanities.”
“First, no one in American academia is worried that they risk death from the U.S. military by blocking military recruiters; on the other hand, British academics (and other British civilians) face a plausible (if statistically small) possibility of being targeted by Islamist terrorists.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘academia’.
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EN - academic vocabulary
Use these and get promoted
abandon, abandonment, abnormally, abstract, abstraction, abstractly, abstracts, academia, academic, academically, academics, academies and 3119 more...
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EN-HU - important words for a HU inte...
Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
abalone, abrasive, abstractionist, abstruse, abysmal, academia, accessibility, accessible, acclimate, accolade, accompanist, achiever and 1469 more...
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Knee Deep in Chic
Words, prose, bon mots, and literary styles that cause a contagious enthusiasm by its very existence. They can be muses to a story. rekindling the spark that went out. The cure-all elixir to a bla...
euphuism, quiddity, saudade, zugzwang, razbliuto, parti pris, oleaginous, crevasse, chantepleure, chiaroscuro, prestidigitation, dysphemism and 79 more...
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five syllables
ontogenesis, phylogenesis, concatenation, androgenesis, extra textual, inexorably, spagyrically, apophenia, iatrochemist, monocotyloid, morphological, parthenogenic and 941 more...
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Sugarbuzz's Words
buzz, widget, haiku, manifesto, warble, supernova, attenuate, mania, diabolical, behemoth, beguile, lascivious and 106 more...
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JJMARLETTE's Words
phantasmagorical, antidisestablishm..., gargantuan, apocryphal, maim, disembowel, viscous, apothecary, seminal, exponential, googol, googolplex and 90 more...
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states of mind: from absurdistan to zion
Countries, lands, cities that capture, or haunt, our dreams. Some of the places listed might be the names of actual localities, but here they are states of mind.
absurdistan, banana republic, utopia, mitteleuropa, new jerusalem, deseret, canaan, zion, ruritania, outer slobovia, lower slobovia, avalon and 126 more...
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cassablanka's Words
etymology, apocope, average, facility, suffocating, magnet, academia, egress, dabbler, sensitive, conversation, mascara and 10 more...
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MrWindUpBird's Words
juxtaposition, cosmonaut, cinema, film, movie, lemon, tactile, paper, jedi, cuddle, eyeglasses, spectacles and 61 more...
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Words that I like based on the way th...
These are words that I like not only for their sound, but that I like for their sound in conjunction with their spelling.
idolatry, appendectomy, superfluous, haughty, ornery, harangue, obligatory, autumnal, anonymity, awfully, atrocities, affluent and 6 more...
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words that make you sound like a douc...
..more so if you attempt to use these words in verbal conversation (see also: i has a thesaurus, too)
profundity, disingenuous, perturbance, commonality, emote, cadre, pedagogy, polymath, surreptitious, portraiture, pundit, academia and 3 more...
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wordie
morbid, ostentatious, enigma, heppelwhite, widdershins, mabel, caligari, maple, sebald, daedalus, salmonella, juggernaut and 62 more...
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Get Schooled
education, school, student, pupil, college, university, classroom, teaching, public school, private school, parochial school, catholic school and 52 more...
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Ave's Words
physics, derivations, mathematics, learning, academic, doctor who, love, lepton, quark, writing, thought, π and 8 more...
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Kalopsia
Beautiful, interesting words that may or may not mean beautiful, interesting things.
latrinalia, myrmidon, picaresque, psithurism, quincunx, quisquilious, saturnine, callipygian, susurrus, tantalolagnia, ululation, belonephobia and 55 more...
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strictly speaking (me)
Me, in word form. Sort of.
squish, pixilated, frou-frou, limerence, veritable, doubtlessly, impressionism, quixotic, scintillating, raison d’être, superfluous, diaphanous and 4 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for academia.
bilby A quick introduction.
Oct 24, 2008