Organismic

adj

adj ·4 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or relating to organicism or organisms.
  2. 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. 1
    of or relating to or belonging to an organism (considered as a whole) wordnet

Synonyms

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animalbased on biologybiologicalbiological communitiesbiological conceptbiological effects

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"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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