English Explanatory Dictionary

etic

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Of or pertaining to analysis of a culture from a perspective situated outside all cultures.

Pronunciation

/ˈɛtɪk/

Word forms

etic more etic most etic

Etymology

Coined by American linguist Kenneth Pike in 1954 from phonetic. * Kenneth Lee Pike (1962), With Heart and Mind: A Personal Synthesis of Scholarship and Devotion, page 37: “I have coined the term etic to refer to the detached observer’s view […]”

Derived words

etically eticness
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