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名詞

organity (uncountable)

1. The quality or state of being an organism.
   • 1642, Henry More, Psuchōdia platonica: or, A platonicall song of the soul, page 14:

     Many put out their force informative In their ethereall corporeity, Devoid of heterogeneall organity.

   • 1884, William Schwenck Gilbert, The Sorcerer:

     And then, if you plan it, he Changes organity, With an urbanity, Full of Satanity, Vexes humanity With an inanity Fatal to vanity— Driving your foes to the verge of instanity!

   • 1897, Andrew Jackson Graham, Gabriel's Wooing, page 9:

     We are products, and the multiplicands and multipliers, issuing in these results, are all the influences and forces of man and nature, God and devil, which any part of this great universe contains. Creation is one: organity is not confined to the human race.

   • 1909, B. O. Flower, “Man In the Light of Modern Psychology”, in The Arena, volume 41, page 248:

     Can we be satisfied with a Mental Science or a Pychology which omits the interpretation of so vast a section of one's organity, and presumes to study only what is apparent on the surface of the self, yet leaves to vague conjecture the deeper source of all?

   • 1916, John H. Finley, Fellowship address, page 13:

     It has been often said, since Coke first said it, that corporations have no souls. But can we believe that such a corporation as this, which exists only to help keep the soul and body together in the individual human being, is collectively without the properties of such an aspiring organ, even though the organity of the aspriation be as elusive as is the human body?

   • 2011, Eugenio Barba, ‎Nicola Savarese, A Dictionary of Theatre Anthropology:

     The body-mind's organity is revealed in a body which does not act in vain, which does not avoid necessary action, which does not react in a self-contradictory and counter-productive way.

2. All living organisms, collectively.
   • 2010, Andy Remic, Hardcore:

     Millions had used the term tinner to refer to bots which had been sentenced to die for crimes against organity.

   • 2013, Peter Sheehan, The Best Story Ever Told, page 92:

     ..., yabbering nincompoop, moonstruck newt, rudimentary nudibranch, hairy nurd, unintelligent noise, screeching non-starter, frenzied ningnong, onanistic necrophiliac pit-dwelling noddyist, vile off-the-trolley, insult to organity, useless oddball, rotten overspill, police outlaw, bilge outlet, unpantyable obscenity,.....

   • 2015, Gabrielle Cody, ‎Meiling Cheng, Reading Contemporary Performance:

     She is a staunch advocate for the transition from a consciousness of “humanity” to one of “organity.”

3. The quality of being organic; having the properties found in nature.
   • 1972, John P. Murray, ‎Eli Abraham Rubinstein, ‎George A. Comstock, Television and Social Behavior: Media content and control, page 505:

     The news editor decided to include a closeup showing a Turkish soldier hitting a demonstrator with a club right on his head. Reason: consideration of integrality and "organity" of sequence to entire story.

   • 2004, Frederick Septimus Kelly, ‎Thérèse Radic, Race Against Time: The Diaries of F.S. Kelly, page 326:

     Vaughan Williams' Symphony lacks organity and is too long.

   • 2016, Jarmo Valkola, Pictorialism in Cinema: Creating New Narrative Challenges, page 157:

     An important aspect of the link within directions inside Hitchcock's oeuvre is connected with Sergei Eisenstein's discussion of the film form (particularly that occurring in his essay Film Form: New Problems (1935)), its organity and its function as a paradigm of reality.

   • 2017, Kristóf Fenyvesi, ‎Tuuli Lähdesmäki, Aesthetics of Interdisciplinarity: Art and Mathematics, page 279:

     In addition, the discourse of free abstraction highlighted organity on the levels of creative process, form and function of art. Following the principles of nature, organic (non-mathematical) growth was seen as eligible in the form of art.

アナグラム

• gyration