nonspecialist

/ nɒnˈspɛʃəlɪst /

noun

1. someone who does not specialize in a particular area, activity, field of research, etc

adjective

1. not specializing in a particular area, activity, field of research, etc

Example Sentences

Gene Kwan, a cardiologist and global health researcher based at Boston University, last year applied for NIH funding to run a study assessing whether artificial intelligence could give nonspecialist physicians an edge as they use portable ultrasound scanners to diagnose and rate the severity of congestive heart failure—a major problem in Haiti.

From Science Magazine

Nonspecialist readers could easily get lost in the plethora of strange names—a five-page dramatis personae helps, though it’s not necessary to know the identity of any particular Assyrian royal in order to grasp the larger points—while he fears fellow academics might take issue with a scholar straying beyond his area of expertise and synthesizing the research of hundreds of colleagues.

From Slate

She was such a ubiquitous presence — the go-to poetry reviewer for serious, nonspecialist publications like The New York Review of Books, The Atlantic, The New Yorker and this one — and wrote with such calm, rigorous authority, that some resentment was inevitable.

From New York Times

The cavalcade of place names and unit designations might be a challenge for the nonspecialist reader.

From Washington Post

A nonspecialist can only speculate on whether what goes on when the mother panda wanders off ultimately becomes part of the cub’s subconscious memory.

From Washington Post

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• secular