holistic

C2 Topic:Art & Music
US /hoʊˈlɪs.tɪk/ UK /həˈlɪs.tɪk/
adj Freq #33032

Meanings

  1. 1
    adj

    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.

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Synonyms
1 adj · relating to a study of the... systemic
Word family
Derived forms antiholisticholisticallyholisticnessnonholisticunholistic

Etymology

From hol- + -istic. See holism.

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