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Definition: Specialism |
SpecialismNoun1. The concentration of your efforts on a particular field of study or occupation. 2. The special line of work you have adopted as your career; "his specialization is gastroenterology". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "specialism" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1908. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | The limitation of practice or study to a particular branch of medicine, dentistry, or other health profession. It is philosophically distinct from the generalist theory in which familiarity with a wide cross-section of the particular discipline is advocated. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: SpecialismSynonyms: specialisation (n), speciality (n), specialization (n), specialty (n). (additional references) |
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| "Specialism" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.78% of the time. "Specialism" is used about 90 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 97.78% | 88 | 35,154 |
| Noun (common) | 2.22% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 90 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "specialism": semi-specialism. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "specialism"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | specializimi, fushë specializimi, degë (agency, arm, bough, branch, brushwood, department, discipline, embranchment, fork, knag, limb, offshoot, outgrowth, perch, prong, rame, ramification, stick). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | склонност към специализация, специализация (specialization). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | "精一门. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Fachgebiet (special field). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ειδίκευση (specialization). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | specializálódás (specialization). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 공. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ecialismspay especialização (speciality, specialization, specialty), especialidade (branch, compartment, expertise, pigeonhole, section, speciality, specialty). (various references) специализация (specialization), область специализации. (various references) specijalizovanost. (various references) especialidad (department, line, special field, speciality, specialty), campo de conocimientos especiales. (various references) specialisering (specialization, specializing). (various references) спеціалізація (differentiation, speciality, specialization, specialty). (various references) sự chuyên khoa, sự đi sâu v o ng nh chuyên môn ng nh chuyên môn. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "specialism": specialisms. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "specialism" (pronounced 'Spe"cial*ism'): Abolitionism, Absenteeism, Absinthism, Absolutism, Academicism, Academism, Accidentalism, Achromatism, Acosmism, Acrobatism, Acrotism, Actinism, Adiaphorism, AEstheticism, Africanism, Agnosticism, Agonism, Agrarianism, Agriculturism, Albinism, Albinoism, Alcoholism, Alienism, Allodialism, Allomerism, Allomorphism, Allotheism, Alphabetism, Altruism, Amateurism, Americanism, Amorphism, Anabaptism, Anachorism, Anachronism, Anacrotism, Anagrammatism, Analogism, Anamorphism, Anarchism, Anathematism, Anatocism, Anatomism, Anchoretism, Andabatism, Aneurism, Anglicanism, Anglicism, Anglo-Catholicism, Anglo-Saxonism. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-i-l-m-p-s-s" | |
-1 letter: misplaces, simplices. | |
-2 letters: eclipsis, episcias, escapism, laicises, laicisms, misplace, misspace, scampies, slipcase, specials. | |
-3 letters: aimless, camises, capless, episcia, espials, impales, impasse, implies, laicise, laicism, lapises, liaises, lipases, malices, mescals, mislies, missile, palsies, plaices, plasmic, psalmic, samiels, samples, seismal, seismic, silesia, silicas, similes, simples, special, splices. | |
-4 letters: aisles, amices, apices, aspics, camels, camise, claims, clamps. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-i-l-m-p-s-s" | |
+1 letter: specialisms. | |
+3 letters: neoplasticism. | |
+4 letters: neoplasticisms, republicanisms, semiporcelains, supercriminals. | |
+5 letters: exceptionalisms, implicativeness, pessimistically. | |
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