organicism
/ɔrˈɡænɪsɪzəm/
noun
- The idea that a society, system, or work of art is like a living organism, with parts that work together as a whole.
- The writer's use of organicism in the novel made every character essential to the plot.
- The philosopher's theory of organicism compares a nation to a body, where each citizen has a role.
- In architecture, organicism means designing buildings that blend with their natural surroundings.
- A medical or philosophical view that all diseases and life processes come from the physical structure of the body, not from separate spiritual forces.
- Doctors who follow organicism look for physical causes of illness rather than supernatural ones.
- The rise of organicism in the 19th century shifted medicine toward anatomy and biology.
- Critics of organicism argue that it ignores the role of the mind in health.
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