Endemic

22 Jan 09

Definition

(adjective) [1] Native to a particular area or culture; originating where it occurs. [2] Peculiar to a particular area or region; not found in other places. [3] Prevalent in a particular area or region.

DFW's Sentence Of course, this is assuming one believes that information and spin are different things—and one of the dangers of partisan news's metastasis is the way it enables the conviction that the two aren't really distinct at all. Such a conviction, if it becomes endemic, alters democratic discourse from a "battle of ideas" to a battle of sales pitches for ideas (assuming, again, that one chooses to distinguish ideas from pitches, or actual guilt/innocence from lawyers' arguments, or binding commitments from the mere words "I promise," and so on and so forth).

My Sentence Yes Doctor Butterworth, apparently this infectious contagion is transmitted via mimicked social behavior and becomes unusually endemic among people who have created a weblog, as was demonstrated in our Legos or Bacon double blind study.

01: DFW Source: The Host

02: Definition Source: Wiktionary

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