Definition of pandemic.


(Entry 1 of 2)


1: occurring over a wide geographic area (such as multiple countries or continents) and typically affecting a significant proportion of the population.

characterized by very widespread growth or extent :(a problem of pandemic proportions)

an outbreak or product of sudden rapid spread, growth, or development :

EPIDEMIC entry 2 sense 2

We have been talking about thepandemic of racism for centuries.— Roger GriffithNobel-prize winning economist Robert Shiller warns a pandemic of fear could tip the economy into an undeserved depression.— Stephanie Landsman

Examples of pandemic in a Sentence

Noun… globalization, the most thoroughgoing socioeconomic upheaval since the Industrial Revolution, which has set off a pandemic of retrogressive nationalism, regional separatism, and religious extremism.— Martin Filler, New York Review of Books, 24 Sept. 2009… it also hopes to utilize this cultural investigation to better understand strategies to reduce the massive pandemic we now understand cigarette smoking to produce.— Allan M. Brandt, The Cigarette Century, 2007

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pandemic



National Library of Medicine.

Abstract

Obesity, a new pandemic, is associated with an increased risk of death, morbidity, and accelerated aging.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15601956/

The Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology's editorial, Obesity: another ongoing pandemic,1 is appropriate during the current times to focus on the issue of obesity across the world. Obesity is a major health-care concern, even in middle-income and low-income countries, because of its association with chronic diseases such as diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and some cancers.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8266268/