ORGANICISM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does organicism mean? 

• ORGANICISM (noun)
  The noun ORGANICISM has 1 sense:

1. theory that the total organization of an organism rather than the functioning of individual organs is the determinant of life processes

  Familiarity information: ORGANICISM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ORGANICISM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Theory that the total organization of an organism rather than the functioning of individual organs is the determinant of life processes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("organicism" is a kind of...):

scientific theory (a theory that explains scientific observations)

Domain category:

holism; holistic theory (the theory that the parts of any whole cannot exist and cannot be understood except in their relation to the whole)

Derivation:

organicistic (relating to or tending toward organicism)