organicism

plural organicisms

1. countablehistoricaluncountablemedicineThe theory that disease is a result of structural alteration of organs.First known use 19th c.
2. countableuncountableThe concept that everything is organic, or forms part of an organic whole.First known use 20th c.

   Its asymmetrical design, half curved, half rectangular, reflects the marquise's divided nature: female organicism joined to male geometry, a psychic hermaphroditism.

   1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae

3. countableuncountablehuman sciencesThe treatment of society or the universe as if it were an organism.
4. countableuncountablehuman sciencesThe mereological idea that living things are the only composite objects.
5. countableuncountableThe theory that the total organization of an organism is more important than the functioning of its individual organs.