Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of or relating to systems or a system.
- adj. Relating to or affecting the entire body or an entire organism: systemic symptoms; a systemic poison.
- adj. Relating to or affecting a particular body system, especially the nervous system: a systemic lesion.
- adj. Physiology Of or relating to systemic circulation.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Of or pertaining to system or systematization; systematic.
- In physiology, pertaining to the body as a whole; somatic; common to a general system; not local: as, systemic circulation.
Wiktionary
- adj. Embedded within and spread throughout and affecting a group, system, body, economy, market, or society as a whole.
- adj. physiology Pertaining to an entire organism.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or relating to a system; common to a system.
- adj. (Anat. & Physiol.) Of or pertaining to the general system, or the body as a whole.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. affecting an entire system
Examples
“In his latest weekly column, Wolf doesn't actually use the term "systemic risk," but everything he says points in that direction.”
The Washington Post: National, World & D.C. Area News and Headlines - The Washington Post
“In 1895, a renowned physician, Sir William Osier, recognized that some forms of lupus involved more than just a rash and actually affected internal organs, and he added the word systemic to the name.”
“—A Democratic candidate for Pennsylvania attorney general Thursday will propose ways of fixing what he calls a systemic failure to protect children from sexual abusers in the state.”
The Wall Street Journal: Attorney General Hopeful Wants Child-Sex-Crimes Database
“The probe stemmed in part from a complaint that the New Jersey chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union filed in September over what it called systemic misconduct in the department and lax oversight.”
“Thursday President Obama blamed the incident on what he called a "systemic failure across organizations and agencies.”
Voice of America: Attention Turns to Yemen in Anti-Terror Fight
“That's why tomorrow is the deadline for the president's national security team where he gave them a deadline for the preliminary findings for what he called systemic and human failures that led to this attempted terror attack.”
“They brought in about 50 officers from the academy to do what they call a systemic grid search of several areas related to this crime.”
“But they had many, dozens of police recruits from the Police Academy here in Chicago going on what they called the systemic grid in the area where that missing SUV was found that had the nephew of Jennifer Hudson in it.”
“There is also a notable expression of what we refer to as systemic frustration among the supporters of employment equity.”
“But he added that he had become disillusioned with what he termed systemic corruption and hypocrisy in cycling and was pessimistic that the doping culture could ever change.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘systemic’.
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G[r]eek
A collection of words found in English that are either purely Greek or have Greek etymology.
Please add with caution and certainty. Will be regularly updated by me.etymology, philosophy, laconic, disharmony, patriarchic, archaic, phlogiston, aether, aeon, angel, arachnid, rhythm and 346 more...
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EU Buzz - single words (1+2+3)
1. Strictly EU terms with special European meaning used only in the EU
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2. Keywords central to the understanding of the EU (people working for the EU are usually able to give thematic...acceleration, action, additionality, administrator, agenda, agricultural, agri-environmental, agriflation, agri-food, applicant, approach, assent and 1325 more...
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Serendipity's Words
defenestration, mercurial, syzygy, wicked, iniquitous, metastable, demimonde, entropic, ephemeral, irreligious, frisbee, manifold and 474 more...
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-ic ending
Words ending in ic, tic or nic.
clastic, elastic, caustic, spastic, frantic, lactic, moronic, ironic, panic, doric, diplomatic, bureaucratic and 202 more...
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tomax's Words
legerdemain, yayo, extravasation, wont, faze, coxswain, concomitant, enclave, unguent, rhabdomyolysis, effluent, puerile and 432 more...
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soph2's Words
serendipity, audacity, groak, petrichor, lethologica, loganamnosis, agnuopia, dysania, dysphagia, neologism, incredulity, harbinger and 246 more...
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GPaX. Words.
excogitate, clarity, obscurity, tangential, interesting, regurgitate, mycelium, degradation, unladen, swallow, klein, quote and 120 more...
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TheLastGoodNameLeft
The Last Good Words Left
ephemera, gammon, errata, ellipses, octopi, heteronormative, polyp, intersectionality, theses, california, halfback, fullback and 555 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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They Roll Off The Tongue
Words that are just fun to say. Entirely subjective, but I like 'em regardless. A complement to the list They Stumble Off The Tongue.
verisimilitude, parsimonious, soliloquy, insipid, ontological, plentifully, je ne sais quoi, misanthropic, bourgeoisie, parallelable, inclemency, frigidity and 159 more...
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simple & useful13
rookeries, bottommost, nettlesome, extravaganza, galoot, gun moll, kludge, pollyannaish, bushwhacking, revivable, flourishing, resurgence and 97 more...
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jaden's Words
countermand, reconcile, pervasive, inherent, dichotomy, ancillary, tenuous, viable, potentate, gestalt, esoteric, ephemeral and 136 more...
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vivek's list
flibbertigibbet, droll, reticence, prelude, erinaceous, brinkmanship, depone, inaniloquent, limerance, pronk, onomatopoeia, oxymoron and 385 more...
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Guru
capsize, nostalgia, annex, carnage, slander, anecdote, dicey, bummer, systemic, fringe, agnostic, surreal and 2 more...
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Groupthink
Intra-Group dynamics, psychology of/within, and heard mentality.
acculturation, isopraxism, girouettism, steinzor effect, crowdsourcing, ethnocentric, syntality, conclamation, esprit de corps, ethnomania, entryism, herd crime and 78 more...
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SockFullOfPennies's Words
spaghettification, simultaneity, instantaneity, prestidigitation, recalcitrant, retronym, uncouple, decouple, ept, evanescent, prodigious, fratricide and 61 more...
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