systemic

English

Etymology

system +‎ -ic. Doublet of systematic.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛmɪk, -iːmɪk

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Adjective

systemic (not comparable)

1. Embedded within and spread throughout and affecting a whole system, group, body, economy, market, or society.
   • 2022 August 10, Dr Mike Esbester, “New understandings from old incidents”, in RAIL, number 963, page 59:

     We can learn from the incidents found it the project database - looking at them and understanding what happened and what might have been done differently. We can see past errors, including systemic issues that required attention at managerial levels.

2. (physiology) Pertaining to an entire organism.

   Synonym: holistic

Usage notes

Not to be confused with systematic (“methodical”).

Antonyms

• topical
• (antonym(s) of “widespread, prevalent”): endemic

Derived terms

• systemical
• systemically
• systemicity

 

Compound words with this term at the end

• episystemic
• geosystemic
• macrosystemic
• mesosystemic
• metasystemic
• microsystemic
• monosystemic
• multisystemic
• nonsystemic
• pansystemic
• polysystemic
• portosystemic
• transsystemic

 

Expressions with this term at the beginning

• systemic circulation
• systemic exertion intolerance disease
• systemic lupus erythematosus
• systemic therapy

 

Related terms

• system
• systematic
• systematization
• systematize

 

Translations

relating to a system

• Arabic: نِظَامِيّ (niẓāmiyy)
• Armenian: համակարգային (hy) (hamakargayin)
• Belarusian: сістэ́мны (sistémny)
• Bulgarian: систе́мен (bg) (sistémen)
• Catalan: sistèmic (ca)
• Czech: systémový (cs)
• Danish: systemisk
• Finnish: systeeminen (fi)
• French: systémique (fr)
• German: systemisch (de), System- (de)
• Hungarian: rendszerszerű (hu)
• Indonesian: sistemis (id)
• Macedonian: системски (sistemski)
• Malay: sistemik
• Polish: systemowy (pl)
• Russian: систе́мный (ru) (sistémnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: сѝсте̄мскӣ

  Roman: sìstēmskī (sh)

• Slovak: systémový
• Slovene: sistemski
• Spanish: sistémico
• Ukrainian: систе́мний (systémnyj)

pertaining to an entire organism

• Catalan: sistèmic (ca)
• Finnish: systeeminen (fi)
• French: systémique (fr)
• Hungarian: rendszerszintű, általános (hu), átfogó (hu)
• Indonesian: sistemis (id)
• Italian: sistemico (it)
• Malay: sistemik
• Polish: ogólnoustrojowy (pl)
• Portuguese: sistêmico (pt)
• Spanish: sistémico

See also

• embedded