mech ‧ a ‧ nis ‧ tic /ˌmekəˈnɪstɪk◂/ BrE AmE adjective
[ Word Family: noun : ↑ machine , ↑ machinery , ↑ machinist , ↑ mechanic , mechanics, ↑ mechanism , ↑ mechanization ; adjective : ↑ mechanical , ↑ mechanized , ↑ mechanistic ; verb : ↑ machine , ↑ mechanize ; adverb : ↑ mechanically , ↑ mechanistically ]
tending to explain the behaviour of things in the natural world as if they were machines:
a mechanistic view of the universe
—mechanistically /-kli/ adverb