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H0238800 (hōl)adj.1. a. Containing all components; complete: the whole series of novels.b. Not divided or disjoined; in one unit: a whole loaf.c. Constituting the full amount, extent, or duration: The baby cried the whole trip home.2. a. Not wounded, injured, or impaired; sound or unhurt: Many escaped the fire frightened but whole.b. Having been restored; healed: After the treatment he felt whole.3. Having the same parents: a whole sister.n.1. A number, group, set, or thing lacking no part or element; a complete thing.2. An entity or system made up of interrelated parts: The value of the whole was greater than the sum of its parts.adv. Informal Entirely; wholly: a whole new idea.Idioms: as a whole All parts or aspects considered; altogether: disliked the acting but enjoyed the play as a whole. on the whole1. Considering everything: on the whole, a happy marriage.2. In most instances or cases; as a rule: can expect sunny weather, on the whole.

[Middle English hole, unharmed, from Old English hāl; see kailo- in Indo-European roots.]

whole′ness n.Synonyms: whole, all, entire, gross, total
These adjectives mean including every constituent or individual: a whole town devastated by an earthquake; all the class going on a field trip; entire shipments lost by the distributor; gross income; the total cost of the project.Antonym: partial

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Noun	1.	wholeness - an undivided or unbroken completeness or totality with nothing wanting; "the integrity of the nervous system is required for normal development"; "he took measures to insure the territorial unity of Croatia"integrity, unitystate - the way something is with respect to its main attributes; "the current state of knowledge"; "his state of health"; "in a weak financial state"completeness - the state of being complete and entire; having everything that is neededincompleteness, rawness - the state of being crude and incomplete and imperfect; "the study was criticized for incompleteness of data but it stimulated further research"; "the rawness of his diary made it unpublishable"
	2.	wholeness - a state of robust good healthhalenessgood health, healthiness - the state of being vigorous and free from bodily or mental disease

wholeness

noun1. The state of being entirely whole:completeness, entirety, integrity, oneness, totality.2. The condition of being free from defects or flaws:durability, firmness, integrity, solidity, soundness, stability, strength.3. The condition of being physically and mentally sound:haleness, health, healthiness, heartiness, soundness.

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(həul) adjective1. including everything and/or everyone; complete. The whole staff collected the money for your present; a whole pineapple. 全体的，整体的 2. not broken; in one piece. She swallowed the biscuit whole.完整的 noun1. a single unit. The different parts were joined to form a whole.整体2. the entire thing. We spent the whole of one week sunbathing on the beach.整个ˈwholeness noun整体ˈwholly adverb completely or altogether. I am not wholly certain yet.全部ˌwholeˈhearted adjective sincere and enthusiastic. wholehearted support.全心全意的ˈwholemeal noun flour made from the entire wheat grain or seed. wholemeal flour/bread.全麦面粉on the whole taking everything into consideration. Our trip was successful on the whole.总的来看

Wholeness

(in Russian, tselostnost’), a general property of objects with a complex internal structure—for example, a society, an individual, a biological population, or a cell. The concept of wholeness expresses the integrality, self-sufficiency, and autonomy of these objects—their juxtaposition to their surroundings, which is linked to their internal activity; it expresses the qualitative distinctiveness of such objects that arises from their inherent specific regularities, or the laws governing their function and development. In Russian, the term tselostnost’ may also be applied to objects that have these properties, in which case it is used as a synonym for “the whole.”

The above-mentioned properties should be understood in the relative rather than in the absolute sense, inasmuch as the object itself has multiple connections with the environment and exists only in unity with that environment. Moreover, the notion of the wholeness of any given object is historically transient, being conditioned by the extent of previous scientific knowledge about that object. Thus in biology the notion of the wholeness of individual organisms was found to be inadequate in certain respects, and the concept of biocenosis was therefore introduced.

The methodological importance of the notion of wholeness is that it emphasizes the need to identify the inner properties of the object as a whole and underscores the fact that its specific properties cannot be adequately explained from without (for example, by using environmental conditions as a starting point). In modern science the concept of wholeness is a basic component of the systems approach.

REFERENCES

See references under PARTS AND WHOLES.

I. V. BLAUBERG and B. G. IUDIN

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noun the state of being entirely whole

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noun the condition of being free from defects or flaws

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noun the condition of being physically and mentally sound

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noun an undivided or unbroken completeness or totality with nothing wanting

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noun a state of robust good health

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