Organismic
adj
adj ·4 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 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."
Adjective
- 1 of or relating to or belonging to an organism (considered as a whole) wordnet
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From organism + -ic.
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