WHOLENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wholeness mean? 

• WHOLENESS (noun)
  The noun WHOLENESS has 2 senses:

1. an undivided or unbroken completeness or totality with nothing wanting

2. a state of robust good health

  Familiarity information: WHOLENESS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WHOLENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An undivided or unbroken completeness or totality with nothing wanting

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

integrity; unity; wholeness

Context example:

he took measures to insure the territorial unity of Croatia

Hypernyms ("wholeness" is a kind of...):

state (the way something is with respect to its main attributes)

Attribute:

broken (physically and forcibly separated into pieces or cracked or split)

unbroken (not broken; whole and intact; in one piece)

whole (including all components without exception; being one unit or constituting the full amount or extent or duration; complete)

fractional (constituting or comprising a part or fraction of a possible whole or entirety)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wholeness"):

completeness (the state of being complete and entire; having everything that is needed)

incompleteness; rawness (the state of being crude and incomplete and imperfect)

Derivation:

whole (acting together as a single undiversified whole)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A state of robust good health

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

haleness; wholeness

Hypernyms ("wholeness" is a kind of...):

good health; healthiness (the state of being vigorous and free from bodily or mental disease)

Derivation:

whole (exhibiting or restored to vigorous good health)