organicism
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
organicism (countable and uncountable, plural organicisms)
- (medicine, now historical) The theory that disease is a result of structural alteration of organs. [from 19th c.]
- The concept that everything is organic, or forms part of an organic whole. [from 20th c.]
- 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:
- Its asymmetrical design, half curved, half rectangular, reflects the marquise's divided nature: female organicism joined to male geometry, a psychic hermaphroditism.
- 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:
- (philosophy) The treatment of society or the universe as if it were an organism.
- The theory that the total organization of an organism is more important than the functioning of its individual organs.
Translations[edit]
treatment of society or the universe as if it were an organism
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theory concerning the total organization of an organism
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theory that disease is a result of structural alteration of organs
See also[edit]
organicism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia