Associations to the word «Organicism»

Wiktionary

ORGANICISM, noun. (philosophy) The treatment of society or the universe as if it were an organism.
ORGANICISM, noun. The theory that the total organization of an organism is more important than the functioning of its individual organs.
ORGANICISM, noun. (dated) (medicine) The theory that disease is a result of structural alteration of organs.

Dictionary definition

ORGANICISM, noun. Theory that the total organization of an organism rather than the functioning of individual organs is the determinant of life processes.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne