metaorganismn.

Brit.

/ˈmɛtəˌɔːɡənɪz(ə)m/,

/ˈmɛtəˌɔːɡn̩ɪz(ə)m/, U.S.

/ˈˌmɛdəˈˌɔrɡəˌnɪz(ə)m/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: meta- prefix, organism n.

Etymology: < meta- prefix + organism n.

†1. A metaphysical body imagined to exist parallel to the physical body of a living thing. Obsolete. rare.

ΚΠ

1866 F. W. H. Myers in E. Gurney et al. Phantasms of Living II. 278 That this body of ours..is interpenetrated with a ‘meta~organism’ of identical shape and structure, and capable sometimes of detaching itself from the solid flesh.

2. An entity, esp. a social group, formed by the aggregation of a number of individual organisms. Cf. body n. 13a, organism n. 3b.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > metaphysics > ontology > [noun] > being or entity > other types of entity

ens rationis1565

mind-body1873

metaorganism1949

1949 Ethics 59 90 The discontinuous series of our private experiences is shot through and through with and strung up on a structure of intersubjective communication signals keeping the meta-organism of a herd or pack in formation.

1991 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 3 Nov. (Home ed.) m4/3 Above all, man must realize that he is but a tiny component of ‘a mysterious meta-organism’.

1998 Mother Jones (Electronic ed.) May Now imagine, as forward-thinking marketers do, the consumer marketplace as a hive, a metaorganism that behaves not like a machine, as classical economists have conceived it, but as a complex living system.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	metaorganism
释义	metaorganismn. Brit. /ˈmɛtəˌɔːɡənɪz(ə)m/, /ˈmɛtəˌɔːɡn̩ɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˈˌmɛdəˈˌɔrɡəˌnɪz(ə)m/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: meta- prefix, organism n. Etymology: < meta- prefix + organism n. †1. A metaphysical body imagined to exist parallel to the physical body of a living thing. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1866 F. W. H. Myers in E. Gurney et al. Phantasms of Living II. 278 That this body of ours..is interpenetrated with a ‘meta~organism’ of identical shape and structure, and capable sometimes of detaching itself from the solid flesh. 2. An entity, esp. a social group, formed by the aggregation of a number of individual organisms. Cf. body n. 13a, organism n. 3b. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > metaphysics > ontology > [noun] > being or entity > other types of entity ens rationis1565 mind-body1873 metaorganism1949 1949 Ethics 59 90 The discontinuous series of our private experiences is shot through and through with and strung up on a structure of intersubjective communication signals keeping the meta-organism of a herd or pack in formation. 1991 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 3 Nov. (Home ed.) m4/3 Above all, man must realize that he is but a tiny component of ‘a mysterious meta-organism’. 1998 Mother Jones (Electronic ed.) May Now imagine, as forward-thinking marketers do, the consumer marketplace as a hive, a metaorganism that behaves not like a machine, as classical economists have conceived it, but as a complex living system. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1866
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