different between biologism vs biology

English

Etymology

From biology +? -ism.

Noun

biologism (usually uncountable, plural biologisms)

1. The use or emphasis of biological principles or methods in explaining human, especially social, behavior. [from 20th c.]
   • 1988, Angela Carter, ‘Eric Rhode: On Birth and Madness’, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage 2013, p. 95:

     But Sophocles and Rhode are both very much concerned with crude biologism vis-à-vis the Oedipal situation.

See also

• biological determinism

References

• biologism, Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. File retrieved Nov. 11. 2007.

Romanian

Etymology

From French biologisme

Noun

biologism n (uncountable)

1. biologism

Declension

English

Wikibooks

Etymology

A classical compound (modern coinage), with components derived from Ancient Greek ???? (bíos, “bio-, life”) +? -????? (-logía, “-logy, branch of study, to speak”). The sibling cognates came into various European languages c. 1800 from a New Latin coinage biologia; the term *???????? (*biología) did not exist in Ancient Greek (although Greek ???????? (viología) is itself borrowed from both English and French biologie). Since the advent of the scientific era, reanalyzable as a compound using the combining forms bio- +? -logy.

Pronunciation

• enPR: b?-?l?-?j?
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ba???l?d?i/, /ba???l(?)?d?i/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ba???l?d??/
• Rhymes: -?l?d?i

Noun

biology (countable and uncountable, plural biologies)

1. The study of all life or living matter.
2. The living organisms of a particular region.
3. The structure, function, and behavior of an organism or type of organism.

   the biology of the whale

Synonyms

• lifelore, life science, life sciences

Meronyms

• See also Thesaurus:biology

Derived terms

Related terms

• biological
• biologically
• biologic
• biologism
• biologist
• biologize

Translations

See also

• Category:Biology