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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



... would be too pale a contrast—but debauchery, a debauchery both secret and alarming, for they have all means at their disposal, and fix the morality of society. Their genuine stupidity lies hid beneath their specialism. They know their business, but are ignorant of everything which is outside it. So that to preserve their self-conceit they question everything, are crudely and crookedly critical. They appear to be sceptics and are in reality ...
— The Thirteen • Honore de Balzac

... historic strength of England, physical and moral, has never had anything to do with this athletic specialism; it has been rather hindered by it. Somebody said that the Battle of Waterloo was won on Eton playing-fields. It was a particularly unfortunate remark, for the English contribution to the victory of Waterloo depended ...
— All Things Considered • G. K. Chesterton

... Christmas-tree. One dares say quite unblushingly, that in no single instance[479] has this abuse of the encyclopaedia added charm, or value, or even force to Zola's work. A man with far less ability than he possessed could have given the necessary touch of specialism when it was necessary, without dumping and deluging loads and floods of ...
— A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 - To the Close of the 19th Century • George Saintsbury



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