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academic

adj
/ˌæk.əˈdɛm.ɪk/US/əˈkæɖ.ə.mɪk/

Etymology

Etymology tree Ancient Greek Ἀκάδημος (Akádēmos) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ία (-ía) Ancient Greek Ἀκαδημία (Akadēmía) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós) Ancient Greek Ἀκάδημος (Akádēmos) Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-ēs Ancient Greek -ης (-ēs) Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ih₂der. Ancient Greek -ῐᾰ (-ĭă) Ancient Greek -εια (-eia) Ancient Greek Ἀκαδήμεια (Akadḗmeia) ▲ Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós) Ancient Greek ἀκαδημικός (akadēmikós)der. Medieval Latin acadēmicusder. ▲ Latin acadēmicusbor. French académiqueder. English academic From both the Medieval Latin acadēmicus and the French académique, from Latin academia, from Ancient Greek ἀκαδημικός (akadēmikós), from Ἀκαδημία (Akadēmía) or Ἀκαδήμεια (Akadḗmeia), the name of the place where Plato taught; compare academy. By surface analysis, academy + -ic.

  1. derived from ἀκαδημικός
  2. derived from academia
  3. derived from académique
  4. derived from acadēmicus

Definitions

  1. Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato.

    • the academic sect or philosophy

  2. Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning, or a scholarly society…

    Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning, or a scholarly society or organization.

    • It was left to the motor industry, half a century later, to destroy Oxford's academic calm.

  3. In particular

    In particular: relating to literary, classical, or artistic studies like the humanities, rather than to technical or vocational studies like engineering or welding.

    • Programs of work should provide students the opportunities to demonstrate both academic and vocational competence attainment.
    • Evidence for cannibalism abounds - even if circumstantial - both from the modern world and throughout history, but academic anthropology has found itself in a funk of denial.
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    1. Having little practical use or value, as by being overly detailed and unengaging, or by…

      Having little practical use or value, as by being overly detailed and unengaging, or by being theoretical and speculative with no practical importance.

      • I have always had an academic interest in hacking.
      • the distinction is academic
      • an academic question

    2. Having a love of or aptitude for learning.

      • I’m more academic than athletic — I get lower marks in phys. ed. than in anything else.

    3. Conforming to set rules and traditions

      Conforming to set rules and traditions; conventional; formalistic.

    4. So scholarly as to be unaware of the outside world

      So scholarly as to be unaware of the outside world; lacking in worldliness; inexperienced in practical matters.

    5. A follower of Plato, a Platonist.

    6. A senior member of an academy, college, or university

      A senior member of an academy, college, or university; a person who attends an academy; a person engaged in scholarly pursuits; one who is academic in practice.

      • Academics[…]see integrated systems for collecting, processing and acting on data as offering a “second electrification” to the world’s metropolises.

    7. A member of the Academy

      A member of the Academy; an academician.

      • Carneades the academick, when he was to write against Zeno the stoick, purged himself with hellebor first […].

    8. A student in a college.

    9. Academic dress

      Academic dress; academicals.

    10. Academic studies.

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Derived

academented, academic advantage, academic art, academic bulimia, academic costume, academic degree, academic disadvantage, academic discipline, academic freedom, academic institution, academicise, academicism, academicist, academicize, academicness, academic quarter, academic question, academic weapon, academic year, acafan, acafandom, antiacademic, Blackademic, interacademic, pracademic, protoacademic, pseudoacademic, quackademic, quasi-academic, subacademic, superacademic, unacademic, non-academic, nonacademic, academicked, academicking, dark academic

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at academic. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at academic. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at academic

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA