pandemics

Meanings

• noun

  An epidemic occurring worldwide, or over a very large area, causing significant health concerns and societal disruption.

  - "The coronavirus pandemic has caused widespread illness and death."
  - "The economic impact of the pandemic is still being assessed."

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Synonyms

pandemia

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Rhymes

Words rhyming with pandemics
demics , hymnics , semantics

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Variants

List of all variants of pandemics that leads to same result
pandemic , pandemics

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Etymology

origin and the way in which meanings have changed throughout history.

From the Ancient Greek word 'pandēmos' meaning 'all the people'.

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Trivia

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1. The Black Death, which occurred in the 14th century, is considered the most devastating pandemic in history.

2. The term 'pandemic' was first used in the late 17th century to describe a widespread outbreak of smallpox.

3. The World Health Organization (WHO) declares a pandemic when a new disease spreads rapidly and globally, posing a significant threat to public health.

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Related Concepts

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1. epidemic: An infectious disease that spreads quickly and affects a large number of people within a short time.

2. endemic: A disease or condition that is regularly found among a particular population or geographical area.

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Quotes

Quotes by authors and personalities

1. In ten years that it raged, this "pandemic" took or ravaged the lives of nearly five million people before it disappeared, as mysteriously and suddenly as it had arrived, in 1927.

   - Oliver Sacks,{it}Awakenings{/it},1973

2. There is evidence that this gambling "pandemic" is going global.

   - Gerri Hirshey,{it}New York Times Magazine{/it},17 July 1994

3. … it also hopes to utilize this cultural investigation to better understand strategies to reduce the massive "pandemic" we now understand cigarette smoking to produce.

   - Allan M. Brandt,{it}The Cigarette Century{/it},2007

4. … globalization, the most thoroughgoing socioeconomic upheaval since the Industrial Revolution, which has set off a "pandemic" of retrogressive nationalism, regional separatism, and religious extremism.

   - Martin Filler,{it}New York Review of Books{/it},24 Sept. 2009

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Culture

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The term 'pandemic' has been used extensively in literature and art to describe widespread disease and societal collapse, such as in Albert Camus' novel 'The Plague' and in various works of science fiction.

How to Memorize "pandemics"

1. visualize
   

   - Imagine a map of the world with red dots representing outbreaks of disease in various countries. Visualize these dots spreading and connecting until the entire map is covered in red, indicating a pandemic.

2. associate
   

   - Associate the term 'pandemic' with the image of a crowded city street emptying as people stay home to avoid infection.

3. mnemonics
   

   - Remember the acronym 'PANDEMIC' - 'P' for 'global spread', 'A' for 'affecting many people', 'N' for 'new disease', 'D' for 'disrupting normal life', 'E' for 'emergency response', 'M' for 'major impact', and 'I' for 'international concern'.

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