Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of or relating to features or items analyzed without considering their role as a structural unit in a system, as in behavioral science or linguistics.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective social sciences Of or pertaining to analysis of a culture from a perspective situated outside all cultures.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From (phon)etic.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From phonetic.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word etic.

Examples

  • Some important terms were introduced - e.g. 'emic' and 'etic' - but not taken to enough depth in examples to drive home the deeper implications.

    PLIGG_Visual_Name - PLIGG_Visual_RSS_All 2010

  • Some important terms were introduced - e.g. 'emic' and 'etic' - but not taken to enough depth in examples to drive home the deeper implications.

    PLIGG_Visual_Name - PLIGG_Visual_RSS_All 2010

  • Some important terms were introduced - e.g. 'emic' and 'etic' - but not taken to enough depth in examples to drive home the deeper implications.

    PLIGG_Visual_Name - PLIGG_Visual_RSS_All 2010

  • Some important terms were introduced - e.g. 'emic' and 'etic' - but not taken to enough depth in examples to drive home the deeper implications.

    PLIGG_Visual_Name - PLIGG_Visual_RSS_All 2010

  • Some important terms were introduced - e.g. 'emic' and 'etic' - but not taken to enough depth in examples to drive home the deeper implications.

    CounterPunch 2010

  • John McCreery: Rick, If "etic" means nothing more than a third-party label, then the PRIZM labels might be called ...

    Savage Minds 2010

  • Obviously this ain't real news to us and is something that I already know is innate and automatic when working with Black client's, but it's been a good resource to recommend to collegues that either have NO clue how to communicate and facilitate dialogue with African American individuals and their families or they have an "etic" point of view (they can apply the same counseling approaches to everybody regardless of their culture … smh).

    unknown title 2009

  • What happens when that emic view comes into conflict with the etic view is a complex issue.

    University pays damages to Indian tribe for alleged misuse of DNA - The Panda's Thumb 2010

  • This man, little known in Australia, introduced the modernist aesth­etic challenge into art education here.

    Bauhaus in Australia: Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack Hels 2009

  • This man, little known in Australia, introduced the modernist aesth­etic challenge into art education here.

    Archive 2009-01-01 Hels 2009

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.