specialistic

[ spesh-uh-lis-tik ]

adjective

1. pertaining to or characteristic of specialists or specialism.

Word History and Origins

Origin of specialistic¹

First recorded in 1880–85; specialist + -ic

Example Sentences

The subject-matter of the volumes often gives rise to specialistic collections.

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Methodical science must thus almost encourage this aversion to any deviation from the path of painstaking specialistic labor.

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Men talk of philosophy and theology as if they were something specialistic and arid and academic.

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It is that which has made the specialistic sciences of our day as strong as they are.

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