organismic

comparative more organismic · superlative most organismic

1. Of or relating to organicism or organisms.

   Synonyms: organismal

2. human sciencesOf or relating to a family of holistic psychological theories that tend to stress the organization, unity, and integration of human beings expressed through each individual's inherent growth or developmental tendency.

   As a projection of the way people experienced daily life, organismic theory emphasized interdependence among the parts of the human body, subordination of individual to communal purposes in family, community, and state, and vital life permeating the cosmos to the lowliest stone.

   1980, Carolyn Merchant, “Nature as Female”, in The Death of Nature