anascopic

anascopic adjective: of scientific forms of thinking which strongly focus upon the individual (or its smaller components such as the body, an organ, tissue, cells, etc.) and look from that point of view toward bigger wholes.

Adjective

anascopic (comparative more anascopic, superlative most anascopic)

Of scientific forms of thinking which strongly focus upon the individual (or its smaller components such as the body, an organ, tissue, cells, etc.) and look from that point of view toward bigger wholes.
- How then should we proceed to liberate criminology from criminal justice and to develop an anascopic view within criminology, that implicates the diversity of people, subcultural values, and social positions into the definition of conflicts.1985, Elizabeth J. Barker, “Abolitionism: Towards a Non-repressive Approach to Crime”, in Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Prison Abolition, page 34
Antonyms:

catascopic

Antonyms of anascopic

catascopic

Forms of anascopic

comparative	more anascopic
superlative	most anascopic

Origin of anascopic

From ana- + -scopic.

Words that rhyme with anascopic

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Questions about anascopic

What does anascopic mean?: Anascopic means of scientific forms of thinking which strongly focus upon the individual (or its smaller components such as the body, an organ, tissue, cells, etc.) and look from that point of view toward bigger wholes.
What part of speech is anascopic?: Anascopic is an adjective.

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