ALL meanings of organicist
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O o - noun organicist Advocate of organicism. 1
- noun organicist 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 organicist Pathology. the doctrine that all symptoms arise from organic disease. 1
- noun organicist a view of society as an autonomous entity analogous to and following the same developmental pattern as a biological organism. 1