Organicity
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The quality of being organic. uncountable, usually
"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."
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More examples"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."
Etymology
From organic + -ity.