Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being whole, complete, entire, or sound; entireness; totality; completeness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being whole, entire, or sound; entireness; totality; completeness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The quality of something considered as a
whole .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an undivided or unbroken completeness or totality with nothing wanting
- noun a state of robust good health
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Examples
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As I continue to discover more fully, day by day, this journey toward wholeness is not something that one is able to undertake alone.
Scott Cairns: The Christian and the Community: A Relationship in God's Image Scott Cairns 2010
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As I continue to discover more fully, day by day, this journey toward wholeness is not something that one is able to undertake alone.
Scott Cairns: The Christian and the Community: A Relationship in God's Image Scott Cairns 2010
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Shifting toward wholeness is how you take advantage of transcending.
Deepak Chopra: How to Dispel Darkness (Part 2) Deepak Chopra 2010
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The painting of shan-shui was seen, therefore, as a process of building up texture from single lines, and by building up the illusion of spatial wholeness from the texture of the various motifs thus delineated.
Shan-shui 2009
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The painting of shan-shui was seen, therefore, as a process of building up texture from single lines, and by building up the illusion of spatial wholeness from the texture of the various motifs thus delineated.
Archive 2009-06-01 2009
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The direction you need to follow in order to develop balance, greater awareness, and wholeness is also described.
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Anyone rejecting the need for this vapid labelling could be seen as somehow less than fully human, lacking in 'wholeness' - and this is the worrying element that and the fact that tax-payers' money is being spent.
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Anyone rejecting the need for this vapid labelling could be seen as somehow less than fully human, lacking in 'wholeness' - and this is the worrying element that and the fact that tax-payers' money is being spent.
Archive 2009-08-01 TK 2009
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The real richness of obsession lies in the ineffable stillness, the irrefutable wholeness, that is found in turning toward its source.
Women Food and God Geneen Roth 2010
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The real richness of obsession lies in the ineffable stillness, the irrefutable wholeness, that is found in turning toward its source.
Women Food and God Geneen Roth 2010
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