organity

Noun

organity (uncountable)

1. The quality or state of being an organism.
   • Many put out their force informative In their ethereall corporeity, Devoid of heterogeneall organity.1642, Henry More, Psuchōdia platonica: or, A platonicall song of the soul, page 14
   • And then, if you plan it, he Changes organity, With an urbanity, Full of Satanity, Vexes humanity With an inanity Fatal to vanity— Driving your foes to the verge of instanity!1884, William Schwenck Gilbert, The Sorcerer
2. All living organisms, collectively.
   • Millions had used the term tinner to refer to bots which had been sentenced to die for crimes against organity.2010, Andy Remic, Hardcore
   • ..., yabbering nincompoop, moonstruck newt, rudimentary nudibranch, hairy nurd, unintelligent noise, screeching non-starter, frenzied ningnong, onanistic necrophiliac pit-dwelling noddyist, vile off-the-trolley, insult to organity, useless oddball, rotten overspill, police outlaw, bilge outlet...2013, Peter Sheehan, The Best Story Ever Told, page 92
3. The quality of being organic; having the properties found in nature.
   • The news editor decided to include a closeup showing a Turkish soldier hitting a demonstrator with a club right on his head. Reason: consideration of integrality and "organity" of sequence to entire story.1972, John P. Murray, Eli Abraham Rubinstein, George A. Comstock, Television and Social Behavior: Media content and control, page 505
   • Vaughan Williams' Symphony lacks organity and is too long.2004, Frederick Septimus Kelly, Thérèse Radic, Race Against Time: The Diaries of F.S. Kelly, page 326