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organicity en · NOUN

Etymology

From organic + -ity.

Meanings

  1. (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:

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