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-omics

-omics suffix: forms nouns meaning “a study of the totality of something”. Also the alternative form of omics.

Suffix

-omics

  1. Forms nouns meaning “a study of the totality of something”.
    • Life sciences usage
      gene + -omics → genomics
      protein + -omics → proteomics
      metabolism + -omics → metabolomics
      glyco- + -omics → glycomics
    • Lesser popular usage
      food + -omics → foodomics
      culture + -omics → culturomics
      token + -omics → tokenomics

Also used as

-omics is also the alternative form of omics.

Forms of -omics

Suffix
alternative form-nomics
alternative form-onomics
Noun
plural-omics

Origin of -omics

From -ome (“whole of class”) + -ics, both via international scientific vocabulary and New Latin ultimately from Ancient Greek.

Questions about -omics

What does -omics mean?
-omics means forms nouns meaning “a study of the totality of something”.
What part of speech is -omics?
-omics is a suffix.

Words near -omics in the dictionary

  1. -ome
  2. -ometer
  3. -ometry
  4. -omia
  5. -omic
  6. -omics
  7. -omino
  8. -omize
  9. -omy
  10. -on
  11. -oncus

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Adapted from Wiktionary: -omics (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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