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wholistic

wholistic is the alternative form of holistic.

Meaning of holistic

Adjective

holistic (comparative more holistic, superlative most holistic)

  1. Related to holism.
  2. Relating to a study of the whole instead of a separation into parts.
    • Our holistic study of these modern-day traces suggests it to be a complex trace arising from domichnial, fodinichnial and possibly pascichnial behavior of polychaetes.2015 October 7, “New Insights into Polychaete Traces and Fecal Pellets: Another Complex Ichnotaxon?”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
    Synonyms:
    systemic
    Antonyms:
    atomistic

Forms of wholistic

comparativemore wholistic
superlativemost wholistic

Origin of wholistic

Blend of whole + holistic.

Words formed from wholistic

Questions about wholistic

What is wholistic the alternative form of?
Wholistic is the alternative form of holistic.

Words near wholistic in the dictionary

  1. Wholigan
  2. Wholigans
  3. wholism
  4. wholisms
  5. wholist
  6. wholistic
  7. wholistically
  8. wholists
  9. wholl
  10. wholle
  11. wholler

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wholistic (page history and authors); holistic (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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