MEANING
1. Regularly present within a particular population, region, or social setting.
2. Native to a particular region and naturally occurring only within that restricted range.
Use it for
describing an established local problem; distinguishing persistent presence from a sudden outbreak; locating a recurring condition within a populationSeparates an established local presence from a species’ naturally restricted range. Academic functions: Significance / Scope, Change / Pattern / Trend.
Words that belong together
- endemic disease
- endemic corruption
- endemic in a population
On the page
The report treats corruption as endemic in the procurement system rather than confined to one transaction.
A disease may remain endemic even when its frequency varies substantially from year to year.
The conservation assessment distinguishes plants native to the region from those endemic to it.
Habitat loss is especially consequential for an endemic species with no other natural population.
Nearby words
Word forms
- Base
- endemic
Usage notes
Usually an adjective: endemic in a population, endemic to a region. Count noun endemic, endemics can denote an endemic disease or organism. The ecological restriction sense is normally non-gradable. Register: formal. Commonness: moderately common (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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