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organismic en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *werǵ-der. Ancient Greek ὄργανον (órganon)bor. Latin organumder. Old French organebor. Middle English organe English organ 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 organism Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English organismic From organism + -ic.

Meanings

1. Of or relating to organicism or organisms.
2. Of or relating to a family of holistic psychological theories that tend to stress the organization, unity, and integration of human beings expressed through each individual's inherent growth or developmental tendency.
   • As a projection of the way people experienced daily life, organismic theory emphasized interdependence among the parts of the human body, subordination of individual to communal purposes in family, community, and state, and vital life permeating the cosmos to the lowliest stone. 1980, Carolyn Merchant, “Nature as Female”, in The Death of Nature:

Forms

Deriveds

multi-organismic · extraorganismic · intraorganismic · single-organismic · organismically

Synonyms

organismal