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biosocial

biosocial adjective: of or pertaining to both biological and social features.

Adjective

biosocial (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to both biological and social features.
    • Man’s so-called instinctual needs are actually shaped—and this may include inhibiting, fostering, or even creating “needs”—by the social games prevalent in his milieu. The view of a dual, biosocial determination of behavior has become incorporated into psychoanalytic theory through increasing...1974, Thomas S. Szasz, chapter 12, in The Myth of Mental Illness, →ISBN, page 199

Origin of biosocial

From bio- + social.

Words formed from biosocial

Questions about biosocial

What does biosocial mean?
Biosocial means of or pertaining to both biological and social features.
What part of speech is biosocial?
Biosocial is an adjective.

Words near biosocial in the dictionary

  1. biosis
  2. biosketch
  3. biosketches
  4. biosludge
  5. biosludges
  6. biosocial
  7. biosocialities
  8. biosociality
  9. biosocially
  10. biosociodemographic
  11. biosociodiversity

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