relating to the interaction of biological and social elements
biosocial in American English
(ˌbaɪoʊˈsoʊʃəl)
adjective
of or having to do with the interrelationships between biology and sociology
biosocial in American English
(ˌbaiouˈsouʃəl)
adjective
1.
of, pertaining to, or entailing the interaction or combination of social and biological factors
2. Sociology
of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the theories of or phenomena studied in biosociology
3.
of or pertaining to social phenomena that are affected by biological factors
Also: biosociological
Derived forms
biosocially
adverb
Word origin
[1890–95; bio- + social]This word is first recorded in the period 1890–95. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: honky-tonk, phoneme, plein-air, takedown, wirelessbio- is a combining form meaning “life” occurring in loanwords from Greek (biography). On this model, bio- is used in the formation of compound words (bioluminescence). Other words that use the affix bio- include: bioenergetics, biogeochemistry, biomass, biomechanics, bionic
Examples of 'biosocial' in a sentence
biosocial
Revenge is fixed, he argues, in our 'biosocial make-up'.
The Times Literary Supplement (2018)
This ignores our modern understanding of 'biosocial make-up' as characterized above all by plasticity.