Etymology

self-organization

Today it means: A process of attraction and repulsion in which the internal organization of a system, normally an open system, increases in complexity without being guided or managed by an outside source. Full definition →

English organization ← Middle English self- ← Old English self-
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  1. Proto-Indo-European*swé?
  2. Proto-Indo-European*selbʰ-
  3. Proto-Germanic*selbaz
  4. Old Englishself
  5. Old Englishself-
  6. Middle Englishself-
  7. Englishself-
  8. Englishorganization
  9. English todayself-organization

From self- + organization.

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