biosocial
biosocial adjective: of or pertaining to both biological and social features.
Adjective
biosocial (not comparable)
- 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
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