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wholeness

/hohl/US // hoʊl //UK // (həʊl) //

整体性,整全,整全性,整体

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : comprising the full quantity, amount, extent, number, etc., without diminution or exception; entire, full, or total: He ate the whole pie. They ran the whole distance.
    • : containing all the elements properly belonging; complete: We have a whole set of antique china.
    • : undivided; in one piece: to swallow a thing whole.
    • : Mathematics. integral, or not fractional.
    • : not broken, damaged, or impaired; intact: Thankfully, the vase arrived whole.
    • : uninjured or unharmed; sound: He was surprised to find himself whole after the crash.
    • : pertaining to all aspects of human nature, especially one's physical, intellectual, and spiritual development: education for the whole person.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the whole assemblage of parts or elements belonging to a thing; the entire quantity, account, extent, or number: He accepted some of the parts but rejected the whole.
    • : a thing complete in itself, or comprising all its parts or elements.
    • : an assemblage of parts associated or viewed together as one thing; a unitary system.

Phrases

  • whole ball of wax, the
  • whole hog
  • whole kit and caboodle, the
  • whole megillah
  • whole new ballgame, a
  • whole nine yards, the
  • whole shebang
  • as a whole
  • go whole hog
  • on the whole
  • out of whole cloth

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • It is against their wholeness that the incomplete impressions of the recent past or present are juxtaposed.

  • What has been grossly overlooked throughout age immemorial is that both aspects need each other for wholeness!

  • “Where there is no desire or pursuit, there is no wholeness, but there are satisfactory lesser states, fragments,” Vidal wrote.

  • And nothing short of this consciousness of Perfect Wholeness can satisfy us.

  • This wholeness, this finish which does not hurt the harmony of the proportions, is a precious quality, very rare in our time.

  • Not another word in that direction as you value the wholeness of your skin.

  • Being complementary means that each supplies what is wanting in the other, and that the two together thus make complete wholeness.

  • Think of the four last gifts of Frœbel in their wholeness of form, as cubes.