etic

Meaning

Adjective

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

Origin

  • from phonetic.
  • 1962, Kenneth Lee Pike, 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

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