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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
holistic
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
holistic medicine (=medical treatment of a whole person, not just a particular illness)
▪ One principle of holistic medicine is that each person is unique.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
more
▪ Some skills or knowledge may be incorporated into higher order or more holistic tasks in later levels of a graduated test scheme.
▪ We anticipate that our integrated clinical practice course will encourage students to adopt a more holistic approach.
▪ It is also in strong contrast with views that see nature as a much more holistic, integrated web of interactions.
▪ They give a more holistic understanding than resources such as reference manuals, which emphasize syntax and rules.
■ NOUN
approach
▪ As a profession, we strive to promote a holistic approach towards our patients.
▪ This is also known as the holistic approach.
▪ A recent Governing magazine article about at-risk youth illustrated the importance of a holistic approach.
▪ The course aims to develop in students a holistic approach to design.
▪ It's less of a problem at schools in a position to take a holistic approach in weighing applicants.
▪ Our scheme reduced the range and volume by using alternatives to chemical pesticides and by taking a holistic approach to growing.
▪ Over a period of time I learned about the holistic approach to illness and how to use it.
health
▪ Aromatherapy can help many disorders, but for the best results it should form part of a holistic health regime.
▪ It is usually called holistic medicine or holistic health.
▪ So my work is very much about person-centred, holistic health.
▪ If he wanted his treatment to be a holistic health approach, he had to work in these areas also.
▪ So a new centre has opened which specialises in holistic health ... with a touch of the cosmos thrown in.
▪ Although aromatherapy can help many ailments, it works best in the context of a holistic health regime.
medicine
▪ In the centre, we record part of my daily routine for self-help holistic medicine which includes pectoral muscle exercises.
▪ It is usually called holistic medicine or holistic health.
▪ Paracelsus's influence on homoeopathy and holistic medicine is genuine, but the paracelsian legacy is much wider.
▪ She sent him books on holistic medicine and nutrition.
▪ The second axiom of holistic medicine is that each person is unique and each program must be individualized.
▪ The concepts of self-defense and self-repair are central contributions of holistic medicine.
treatment
▪ Herbalism: a holistic treatment involving the use of herbal remedies specifically chosen and blended for different conditions.
view
▪ This requires an interdisciplinary approach and the Institute has an holistic view of land, plant and animal management.
▪ As another example of its long-standing holistic view of quality management, Motorola has extended this same focus to its non-manufacturing areas.
▪ But this holistic view was lost, and architecture became a series of isolated statements.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A recent Governing magazine article about at-risk youth illustrated the importance of a holistic approach.
▪ Also it promotes that holistic sense of the whole of life's experience being brought into harmony, including the discords.
▪ As another example of its long-standing holistic view of quality management, Motorola has extended this same focus to its non-manufacturing areas.
▪ Consider the extent to which the approach can be said to be atomistic or holistic, bottom-up or top-down.
▪ Customer-driven systems also allow individuals to meet their needs in a holistic way, without applying to half a dozen different programs.
▪ In the centre, we record part of my daily routine for self-help holistic medicine which includes pectoral muscle exercises.
▪ That can not be promised here, though a holistic perspective is taken on literary stylistics in addressing science fiction.
▪ This principle plays on the holistic nature of systems.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
holistic

1939, from holism + -istic. Holistic medicine is first attested 1960. Related: Holistically.

Wiktionary
holistic

a. 1 related to holism 2 Relating to a study of the whole instead of a separation into parts.

WordNet
holistic

adj. emphasizing the organic or functional relation between parts and the whole [ant: atomistic]

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Usage examples of "holistic".

Kosmos into a flatland interlocking order of holistic elements, with the embarrassed subject dangling over the flatland holistic world with absolutely no idea how it got there.

And this is precisely, as we have seen, the fundamental Enlightenment paradigm: a perfectly holistic world that leaves a perfectly atomistic self.

It fails to see that if we take a bunch of egos with atomistic concepts and teach them that the universe is holistic, all we will actually get is a bunch of egos with holistic concepts.

The transformative question is: who or what is aware of both holistic and atomistic concepts?

Witness of those concepts, a Witness that itself is neither holistic nor atomistic, see here the Witness dissolve in an Emptiness that embraces the entire Kosmos.

The cruciform, in order to restore the mind and body of a human being, must not only keep track of these atoms and neurons, but remember the precise configuration of the standing holistic wave front which comprises the human memory and personality.

Like the Copernican shift from a geocentric to a heliocentric view of the solar system, the shift from scientific materialism to radical empiricism entails a shift from a matter-centered concept of reality to a holistic view of mental and physical phenomena as dependently related events.

Paris doing research on a larva called metacercaria, a holistic healer in Oakland promising to cure aches of the metacarpal bones.

With its focus on physiology rather than the holistic sexual landscape, Viagra continues to subordinate female sexuality to a phallocentric model, creating yet another reason for women to feel responsible, unsexy, inadequate, and guilty, rather than fed up and underserved, when their penis-pill-popping partners leave them unsatisfied.

A full menu of spa treatments, outdoor pool and natural hot springs, and a holistic vibe round out the relaxation.

The former emphasizes the created world of manyness, the latter the uncreated source or origin and both, taken in and by themselves, are dualistic through and through, no matter how much they might call themselves monistic, nondual, all-encompassing, holistic, and whatnot.

Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Bacon, Newton, Kelvin, Clausius this great unified and holistic worldview began to fall apart, and fall apart in ways, it is clear, that none of these pioneering scientists themselves either foresaw or intended.

Eco-camps completely take for granted, and thus completely overlook, the vast networks of intersubjective meaning and dialogical fabric that allow them to present and even comprehend a holistic web in the first place: they have no idea of the extensive dynamics of intersubjective communicative exchange that allows and upholds their objective web-of-life systems theories, and thus they have no actual recommendations as to how to reproduce that intersubjective agreement and mutual understanding in others or in the world at largethey can only aggressively insist that everybody agree with them and accept their systems view, utterly ignoring how the intersubjective worldspace develops from egocentric to sociocentric to worldcentric comprehension.

It fails to see that if we take a bunch of egos with atomistic concepts and teach them that the universe is holistic, all we will actually get is a bunch of egos with holistic concepts.

Eco camps is that if people truly learned and really understood the holistic oneness of reality and the great web, that would force them to give up their egos and they would indeed truly transform.