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organicist en · NOUN

Etymology

From organic + -ist.

Meanings

  1. An advocate of organicism.
    • The organicist view of society has much less appeal to contemporary theorists. 2007, Francis Heylighen, “The Global Superorganism: An Evolutionary-cybernetic Model of the Emerging Network Society”, in Social Evolution & History, volume 6, number 1, page 58:
    • While claiming their science could provide explanations of the pathophysiological and neurological mechanisms of psychiatric disorders, organicists were far from sanguine about cures. 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 491:

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Deriveds

organicistic