mechanistic

comparative more mechanistic · superlative most mechanistic

1. Having the impersonal and automatic characteristics of a machine.

   The graceful, otherworldly sounds on which the first movement was built gave way to sharply articulated, dissonantly blaring woodwind and brass chords, and eventually to a mechanistic passage that combined rumbling low notes and a steady, searing high pitch.

   2009 September 14, Allan Kozinn, “Austrian Avant-Garde: Eerie Textures and Text”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 17 Jun 2022

2. Predetermined by, or as if by, a mechanism.
3. human sciencesHaving a physical or biological cause.

   Such ateleological explanation is what is meant by mechanistic explanation in the broad sense.

   1908, William McDougall, An Introduction to Social Psychology, section 449