Endemic

Native to or restricted to a particular region or population; regularly found among a particular group (often used of diseases).

adjective

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Nerds are a particular group of students who only focus on achieving high academic scores and are usually not sociable.

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Sounds Like

en-DEM-ik

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Looks Like

academic

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Remember This

Endemic describes things that are native to or regularly found in a particular place or population; not to be confused with epidemic, which refers to widespread disease outbreaks.

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Other Forms

Endemicallyadverb

Endemicitynoun

Endemismnoun

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Connect With

local, native, indigenous, endemicity, endemicism

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Note

Endemic vs. epidemic: endemic means consistently present in a region; epidemic means a disease that affects many people in a region at a given time. Endemic can also describe species native to a region.

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Examples

Malaria is endemic in parts of sub-Saharan Africa.
The koala is endemic to eastern Australia.

Synonyms

nativelocalindigenousrestricted to a regionendemic to a place

Antonyms

epidemicnonendemicexotic

Etymology

From Greek endēmos, from en- 'in' + dēmos 'people'.

Mnemonic

EN DEM ic: in the demos (people) — something that is in the population.

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