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biotics

biotics noun: the promotion of enjoyment and the reduction of suffering. Also the plural of biotic.

Noun

biotics pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) The promotion of enjoyment and the reduction of suffering.
    • That part of biotics which is a defense against suffering, and accordingly also ethics later on, has four divisions, in correspondence with those four sources of suffering: subhuman nature, man's own nature, his living together with fellow-men, and superhuman powers.1960, Roland Houde, Joseph Patrick Michael Mullally, Philosophy of Knowledge: Selected Readings, page 16
    • More broadly, communal biotics, or ethics, elevates diminution of suffering into a common goal, while culture is that aspect of communal biotics in which people share enjoyment.1983, William M. Johnston, The Austrian Mind: An Intellectual and Social History, 1848-1938, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 200

Also used as

biotics is also the plural of biotic.

Words formed from biotics

Questions about biotics

What does biotics mean?
Biotics means the promotion of enjoyment and the reduction of suffering.
What part of speech is biotics?
Biotics is a noun.

Words near biotics in the dictionary

  1. biothreats
  2. biotic
  3. biotical
  4. biotically
  5. bioticity
  6. biotics
  7. biotin
  8. biotinable
  9. biotinamide
  10. biotinidase
  11. biotinidases

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