systemic
adj.adj. affecting an entire system or organization rather than just one small part. You use this to describe problems or rules that are built into the way a whole group works.
adj. relating to or affecting an entire system as a whole, rather than its individual components. Often describes deep-seated issues within social, political, or biological structures.
The company needs to fix systemic problems in its management.
The investigation revealed systemic failures in the hospital's safety protocols that had gone unnoticed for years.
Economists warned that the collapse of a major bank could trigger systemic risk, potentially destabilizing the entire global financial infrastructure within days.
From system + -ic. Doublet of systematic.
Typically used to modify nouns like 'risk', 'failure', 'racism', or 'change'.
a systematic problema systemic problem'Systematic' means done according to a plan or method, while 'systemic' means affecting the whole system.