organicityn.
/ˌɔːɡ(ə)ˈnɪsᵻti/, U.S. /ˌɔrɡəˈnɪsᵻdi/ The quality or state of being organic (in various senses).
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the world > relative properties > order > [noun] > quality of being systematic
methodicalness1678
systematicality1872
organicity1893
1893 C. Lombroso in A. MacDonald Criminology Introd. p. i It will no longer be possible to deny the organicity of crime, its anatomical nature, and degenerative source.
1936 V. A. Demant Christian Polity ix. 161 Instead of a return to true organicity, we have Collectivism, both in the patchwork of decaying Capitalism and in Russian Communism.
1945 Mind 54 53 This fourth and last of the distinctively mental properties..might be called ‘organicity’ as well as ‘integration’.
1977 A. Sheridan tr. J. Lacan Écrits vi. 213 Freud first threw light on the evolution itself of the process, thus making it possible to illuminate its own determination, by which I mean the only organicity that is essentially relevant to this process.
2000 Guardian 4 Apr. (Educ. section) 12/3 It's the organicity of it, I suppose—the earthy wholesomeness—contrasted with the near sterility of professional activity.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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