systemic
pronunciation
How to pronounce systemic in British English:
UK [sɪˈstiːmɪk , sɪˈstemɪk]
How to pronounce systemic in American English:
US [sɪˈstemɪk]
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- Adjective:
- affecting an entire system
Word Origin
- systemic (adj.)
- 1803, irregularly formed from system + -ic; used in medicine and biology for differentiation of meaning from systematic. Related: Systemically.
Example
- 1. Systemic elegancearises from the scaffolding that supports a site 's core idea .
- 2. Where I once saw only poverty I learned to see systemic inequality and the possibility of change .
- 3. The council ruled the mistake was down to human error , not systemic failings .
- 4. That mysteriousness was the thing that made lehman 's collapse turn instantly into a systemic crisis .
- 5. The politicians who dreamed up the directive talk about systemic risk , a concern for financial stability .