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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
organicism is a noun meaning "theory that the total organization of an organism rather than the functioning of individual organs is the determinant of life processes". It carries one recorded sense.
theory that the total organization of an organism rather than the functioning of individual organs is the determinant of life processes
holism
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for organicism come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.