Superorganic

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Above or beyond the organic.

    "Human culture is superorganic in the psychological sense that man's capacity for invention and communication enables him to create and acquire new forms of cultural life without any corresponding change in his organic structure."

Example

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"Human culture is superorganic in the psychological sense that man's capacity for invention and communication enables him to create and acquire new forms of cultural life without any corresponding change in his organic structure."

Etymology

From super- + organic.

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