wholeness

American  

[hohl-nis] / ˈhoʊl nɪs /

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.

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Etymology

Origin of wholeness

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

Example Sentences

Wholeness and well-being are a spooky pursuit in this hour-long series, based on Liane Moriarty’s bestseller of the same name, where the guests’ tortured pasts collide with Masha’s murky intentions.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 18, 2021

Well, there was a video called “Return to Wholeness: A Mind-Body Approach to Healing Cancer.”

From The New Yorker • Oct. 17, 2019

The experiment inspired Bohm to write Wholeness and the Implicate Order, published in 1980.

From Scientific American • Jul. 28, 2018

In his book Wholeness and the Implicate Order, you’ll find a chapter on language, in which he discusses this rheomode.

From Scientific American • Nov. 5, 2013

There is more independence in it than in any of the others, because it is the nearest approach known in existence to Wholeness or Unity.

From The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam by Khayyam, Omar