environome

English

Etymology

From enviro- +‎ -ome.

Noun

environome (usually uncountable, plural environomes)

  1. (uncommon) The sum total of environmental factors and exposures an individual experiences throughout their life, including lifestyle factors, which can influence their health and well-being.
    • 2000, S. L. Viehl, Stardoc, Book 1:
      Reever's ability to link with me evidently had no limit on distance. From across the environome I felt him initiate the connection
    • 2001, Line Kossolapow, Sarah Scoble, Arts - Therapies - Communication, On the Way to a Communicative European Arts Therapy, page 74:
      A current model suggests that affective disorders are more common in those with a particular genome when combined with exposure to certain features of the environome, e.g., bereavement.
    • 2003, Virginia Murphy-Berman, John J. Berman, Cross-cultural Differences in Perspectives on the Self, page 190:
      Evolutionary psychologists (e.g., Buss, 1991; Tooby & Cosmides, 1990) have repeatedly pointed out that enduring human psychological mechanisms and behavioral strategies for solving recurrent adaptive problems are produced or incarnated as the result of interactions between genes and the environment (physical and sociocultural), or genome and environome.
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