organicist
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- noun
- /ɔrˈɡænɪsɪst/
- Specialized
- The organicist perspective emphasizes the importance of relationships among living organisms.
Examples
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However, currently I think there is nothing to be gained and a good deal to be lost by making exaggerated claims for the organicists' position, which is unsupported by valuable experimental investigation.
Academic text (1990) -
His organicist imagination, which led him to embody the transcendental in the material particular, never in the end gets beyond that Cartesian dualism, which drives his vision and his prophecy.
Academic text (1997) -
Tetsur's organicist vision enumerated the individual as an incomplete being apart from its relationship to other individuals.
Academic text (2004) -
Of course, I agreed with his statement that there is nothing to be gained and much to be lost by making exaggerated claims for the organicist position, which is unsupported by experimental investigation.
Academic text (1990) -
The neurotransmission hypothesis of mental disorder shares its organicist preconception with studies of genetic transmission of the (as yet) unknown cause of psychiatric disorders.
Academic text (1995) -
As an organicist, she analyzes how ecosystems function as interconnected wholes.
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Many scientists embrace the organicist approach to better understand the complexities of life.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Organicist comes from organic, which comes from organ, a word for a 'part of a living body' or a musical 'instrument', and the ending -ist, which means 'person' as in artist or scientist. So an organicist is a person who studies or believes that living things work as a single 'whole' rather than just a set of parts.