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Specialism

noun
1.
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.  Synonyms: specialisation, speciality, specialization, specialty.





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"Specialism" Quotes from Famous Books



... his foreign observation is its entire freedom from specialism. Perhaps this cannot be made to appear more clearly than in the contrast presented by his "English Note-Books" and "Our Old Home" to Emerson's "English Traits," and Taine's "Notes on England." The latter writer is an acute, alert, ...
— A Study Of Hawthorne • George Parsons Lathrop
... living in an age of division of labor and specialism; and those who, like Robert Franz and Richard Wagner, devote themselves to a single branch of music have a better chance of reaching the summit of Parnassus than those who dissipate their energies ...
— Chopin and Other Musical Essays • Henry T. Finck
... of specialism, through division of labor and intensification of interests restricted to limited fields, in practical medicine, the necessary result and to a large extent also a cause of the rapid growth of knowledge and technic ...
— A Psychiatric Milestone - Bloomingdale Hospital Centenary, 1821-1921 • Various


Words linked to "Specialism" :   career, specialisation, specialist, specialization, immersion, absorption, calling, engrossment, concentration, specialty, vocation, speciality


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