organicity en · NOUN
Etymology
From organic + -ity.
Meanings
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(uncountable, usually) The quality of being organic.
Where did the new approach [of broken windows policing] go off track? The difficulty can be traced back to the categories of "honest persons" and "the disorderly." Under the broken windows theory, these categories are vested with a certain naturalness, or fixity, or organicity. It is as if the world were naturally divided into law abiders and lawbreakers.
2001, Bernard E. Harcourt, chapter 5, in Illusion of Order:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| organicities | Number=Plur | lexicographic |