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biologism|baɪˈɒlədʒɪz(ə)m|
[f. biology + -ism.]
The interpretation of human life from a strictly biological point of view.
Motley's use of the word (= electro-biology 2) is Obs. rare.
1852Motley Corr. 18 May (1889) I. 143 Whenever a charlatan can't find any to believe in his tricks of mesmerism or biologism, or whatever may be the latest neologism. 1924Public Opinion 25 Jan. 81/3 When we try to force all the facts of human society into frameworks of zoology we are guilty of a biologism. 1926J. A. Thomson Man in Light Evol. 32 A biologism is an attempt to ignore the uniqueness of man by forcing his activities in their entirety into the framework of mammalian physiology... It is a biologism to picture an average man as the slave of his hormones. 1967Guardian 20 Oct. 6/3 Much of the biologism of this and other of his recent books is mere accretion concealing his own experiential progress.
Hence bioloˈgistic a., of or relating to biologism.
1948K. Davis Human Society (1959) xx. 556 So ingrained is the old biologistic approach to human fertility. 1959New Scientist 17 Dec. 1266/1 A Neo-Freudian who has tried to correct Freud's biologistic approach to behaviour by stressing some of its cultural determinants. |