wholeness

[hohl-nis]

noun

1. soundness, health, or well-being in body, mind, soul, or spirit.

   Shalom is a sense of contentment, wholeness, and harmony.

2. the state or condition of being not broken, injured, or damaged; intact condition.

   It may help to maintain the durability and wholeness of your roof if you have an expert roofing contractor look at it every few years.

3. the state of including the full amount or extent of something, or all parts of something, with nothing missing.

   In this beautiful 18-karat rose-gold ring, the flower appears in all its wholeness, with stem, leaf, and blossom.

4. the state or condition of being in one piece, without separation of parts.

   Recognizing event, author, text, and reader, we see the narrative work in all its indivisible wholeness, while also understanding the diverse elements that make it up.

Word History and Origins

Origin of wholeness¹

First recorded before 1000; whole ( def. ) + -ness ( def. )

Example Sentences

They’d open up their homes, set extra places at the dinner table, and even prepare a meal with the hope that maybe the dead would bless them with health and wholeness through the winter months.

From Salon

“It’s about security, freedom, independence, a promise of wholeness. All those fantasies, illusions. Money was rarely about money.”

From Los Angeles Times

“That’s because over time, any expression of any one local action gets stitched together and gives us our sense of conscious wholeness that we all experience.”

From Salon

In the wholeness of what Cardoso has invited us into, his bright intersections of a city and its people on the move, a profound convergence takes shape.

From Los Angeles Times

Meeting all of these needs is required for full health, full wholeness.

From Salon