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organismic, a.|ɔːgəˈnɪzmɪk|
[f. organism + -ic.]
Of or pertaining to an organism; applied esp. to theories, etc., relating to interdependence or organic unity. Hence orgaˈnismically adv.
1886J. C. Burnett (title) Diseases of the skin, from the organismic standpoint. 1921C. M. Child Origin & Devel. Nervous Syst. i. 3 The problem..is the problem of the nature and origin of the pattern which constitutes the organism as a whole, whether it consists of one cell or many, in short, the problem of organismic pattern. [Note] In view of the fact that the word ‘organism’, which implies the existence of a unity and order in the entity so designated, is universally accepted and employed, the word ‘organismic’ is not only biologically and etymologically justified but fills a need which is becoming more and more apparent. 1923Psychol. Bull. XX. 684 (heading) The organismic vs. the mentalistic attitude toward the nervous system. 1934Jrnl. Philos. Sci. I. 474 Having thus given, in organismic terms, a brief over-view of the nature and content of thought, we may now consider for a moment its logical aspect. 1943C. L. Hull Princ. Behavior ii. 28 The basic principles of organismic behavior are to be viewed against a background of organic evolution. 1948M. Sherif Outl. Social Psychol. i. ii. 29 The perfectly defensible organismic position..holds that typical reactions of the organism are not fragmentary and that the conceptual or abstract level of psychological functioning is the level of human functioning in the normal conditions of civilized life. 1951E. E. Evans-Pritchard Social Anthropol. iii. 54 Professor Radcliffe-Brown has..clearly and consistently stated the functional, or organismic theory of society. 1961Webster, Organismically. 1967Encycl. Philos. V. 549/1 The term ‘organismalism’ was coined by the zoologist W. E. Ritter in 1919 to describe the theory that..‘the organism in its totality is as essential to an explanation of its elements as its elements are to an explanation of the organism’. Subsequent writers have largely replaced ‘organismal’ with..‘organismic’ as a title for this theory. 1971Jrnl. Gen. Psychol. LXXXV. 230 This finding suggests that cognitive style is organismically based. 1975Nature 27 Mar. 370/2 Luria emphasises molecular aspects of biology, but not to the exclusion of organismic aspects. |