Dictionary

organicism en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree English organic Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English organicism From organic + -ism.

Meanings

1. (countable, historical, uncountable) The theory that disease is a result of structural alteration of organs.
2. (countable, uncountable) The concept that everything is organic, or forms part of an organic whole.
   • Its asymmetrical design, half curved, half rectangular, reflects the marquise's divided nature: female organicism joined to male geometry, a psychic hermaphroditism. 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:
3. (countable, uncountable) The treatment of society or the universe as if it were an organism.
4. (countable, uncountable) The mereological idea that living things are the only composite objects.
5. (countable, uncountable) The theory that the total organization of an organism is more important than the functioning of its individual organs.

Forms

Translations (2)

de Organizismus (theory concerning the total organization of an organism) · ga orgánachas (treatment of society or the universe as if it were an organism)