academic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛmɪk
ipa: /ˌæk.əˈdɛm.ɪk/
note: Indic
ipa: /əˈkaɖəmɪk/
note: Indic
ipa: /əkəˈɖɛmɪk/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈakəɖɛmɪk/
Forms: form: more academic
form: most academic
form: academick
form: acad
form: acad.
form: Academic
Etymology: 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.
Senses: examples: text: the academic sect or philosophy
glosses: Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato.
examples: text: But unhappily, by too short a view of things, you have been apt to mistake the completion of your academic courses for the completion of your theologic studies: and then, by a false modesty, have despaired of knowing more than you would suffer those august places of your education to teach you.
ref: 1761, William Warburton, A Charge to the Clergy of the Diocese of Gloucester; republished as The Works of the Right Reverend William Warburton, D. D., Lord Bishop of Gloucester, volume 9, 1811, page 372:
text: It was left to the motor industry, half a century later, to destroy Oxford's academic calm.
ref: 1959 December, John Alves, “Resorts for Railfans - 29: Oxford”, in Trains Illustrated, page 596:
glosses: Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning, or a scholarly society or organization.
examples: text: Programs of work should provide students the opportunities to demonstrate both academic and vocational competence attainment.
ref: 1991, Wisconsin State Board of Vocational, Technical and Adult Education, Accountability Report, and ... State Plan for Vocational, Technical and Adult Education in Wisconsin, page 16:
text: 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.
ref: 2000 September 7, Henry Gee, “Eating people - is it bad taste?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 09 May 2014:
glosses: In particular: relating to literary, classical, or artistic studies like the humanities, rather than to technical or vocational studies like engineering or welding.
examples: text: I have always had an academic interest in hacking.
text: the distinction is academic
text: an academic question
text: The character of the process by which the views of the intellectuals influence the politics of tomorrow is therefore of much more than academic interest.
ref: 1949, F. A. Hayek, “The Intellectuals and Socialism”, in University of Chicago Law Review, volume 16, number 3, Chicago: University of Chicago, →DOI, page 418:
text: The exact sequence and timing of the subsequent explosions and inflight fires are not known and are, in fact, somewhat academic with respect to the probable cause of the accident.
ref: 1965 February 25, Civil Aeronautics Board, “Analysis”, in Aircraft Accident Report: Pan American World Airways, Inc Boeing 707-121, N709PA, Near Elkton, Maryland, December 8, 1963, archived from the original on 01 Dec 2024, page 11:
text: But almost always such words are irreversibly established before the objectors learn of their existence, and the objections are hardly more than academic exercises.
ref: 1985, Robert Burchfield, The English Language, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 112:
text: In theory, a fully intact reverse osmosis membrane should be capable of removing lipopolysaccharide pyrogens […] In practice, this distinction is academic, because pyrogens do not replicate, and as long as the product water is […]
ref: 1985, Depyrogenation, page 33:
text: In practice this distinction is academic, as any small nodule on the surface of a thyroidectomy specimen should be examined histologically. If carcinoma is suspected or proven, the whole surface of the specimen may be marked[…]
ref: 1990, David George Lowe, I. J. M. Jeffrey, Surgical Pathology Techniques, Mosby Incorporated:
text: The question of how many weapons are required for credible deterrence against India is purely academic.
ref: 2011 May 16, “Pakistan's AQ Khan: My Nuclear Manifesto”, in Newsweek:
text: For the majority of owners, its four-wheel-drive endeavours will be of purely academic interest.
ref: 2017 November 10, “Land Rover Discovery review – SUV's the finest car in the Landy”, in Scottish Daily Record:
text: As a general matter, we will not consider a protest where the issue presented has no practical consequences with regard to an existing federal government procurement, and thus is of purely academic interest.
ref: 2018 May 22, Decision, Matter of Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, US Government Accountability Office:
text: […]; if you do not know, or care to know, much about critical theory, the writings of Butler are academic in the unflattering sense of that term. But in their world, they are, if not royalty, lords of the realm.
ref: 2018 September 23, Eliot A. Cohen, “The Crisis of the American Elites”, in The Atlantic:
text: SCP-3125 had skirmished with ω-0 before, but it had always been unclear how much information about ω-0 it retained between skirmishes. In fact it was unclear, fundamentally speaking, how SCP-3125 thought at all. Its behaviour was inconsistent, unpredictable and frightening; records of its activities were cognitohazardous, discouraging close analysis.
In the end, the question proved to be academic. When SCP-3125 arrived, whether it knew ω-0 was there or not, it took no special action against it, and had no need to. Most of ω-0's members' anchors were Foundationers, or Foundation-adjacent. With those people's minds blown away in the first strike, the dense web of mutual memory which had held the Task Force together since its formation tore loose. More than half of the Task Force was cast into the void and died; the final, real death they had evaded for years.
ref: 2019 August 26, qntm, “Unthreaded”, in There Is No Antimemetics Division, →ISBN, page 162:
coordinate_terms: abstract
artificial
glosses: Having little practical use or value, as by being overly detailed and unengaging, or by being theoretical and speculative with no practical importance.
examples: text: I’m more academic than athletic — I get lower marks in phys. ed. than in anything else.
glosses: Having a love of or aptitude for learning.
topics: art
arts
glosses: Conforming to set rules and traditions; conventional; formalistic.
topics: art
arts
glosses: Conforming to set rules and traditions; conventional; formalistic.
Subscribing to the architectural standards of Vitruvius.
glosses: So scholarly as to be unaware of the outside world; lacking in worldliness; inexperienced in practical matters.
Derived terms: academented
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Academicism
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acafan
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antiacademic
blackademic
Blackademic
interacademic
non-academic
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protoacademic
pseudoacademic
quackademic
quasi-academic
subacademic
unacademic
Related terms: academia
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