superorganic

[ soo-per-awr-gan-ik ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

, Sociology, Anthropology.

of or relating to the structure of cultural elements within society conceived as independent of and superior to the individual members of society.

superorganic

/ ˌsuːpərɔːˈɡænɪk /

sociol (no longer widely used) relating to those aspects of a culture that are conceived as being superior to the individual members of the society

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Superphysical, sū-pėr-fiz′i-kal, adj. superorganic, psychical.

They belong to a superorganic system of relations, conventions, and institutional arrangements.

Competition and combination are two forms of life association which alternate through the whole organic and superorganic domains.

There is here, it may be said, no special reference to the organic and the superorganic.

It remains to apply them to inorganic, organic, and superorganic existences.

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