organization

Definition

The quality of being organized.

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French organisation, from Medieval Latin organizātiō; by surface analysis, organize + -ation.

Example Sentences

• "This painting shows little organization at first glance, but little by little the structure becomes clear."
• "The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure. Yet this is the level of organisation that does the actual thinking—and is, presumably, the seat of consciousness."
• "The organization of the book is as follows."

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