ALL meanings of organicism
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O o - noun organicism (philosophy) The treatment of society or the universe as if it were an organism. 1
- noun organicism Philosophy. the view that some systems resemble organisms in having parts that function in relation to the whole to which they belong. Compare holism (def 1). 1
- noun organicism Pathology. the doctrine that all symptoms arise from organic disease. 1
- noun organicism a view of society as an autonomous entity analogous to and following the same developmental pattern as a biological organism. 1
- noun organicism the theory that the functioning of living organisms is determined by the working together of all organs as an integrated system 0
- noun organicism the theory that all symptoms are caused by organic disease 0
- noun organicism the theory that each organ of the body has its own peculiar constitution 0
- noun organicism holism 0
- noun organicism the theory that living processes are a function of the entire, coordinated, autonomous system of an organism, rather than of any of its parts 0