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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wholeness

Wholeness \Whole"ness\, n. The quality or state of being whole, entire, or sound; entireness; totality; completeness.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
wholeness

mid-14c., from whole (adj.) + -ness. Old English had halnes.

Wiktionary
wholeness

n. The quality of something considered as a whole.

WordNet
wholeness
  1. n. an unreduced or unbroken completeness or totality [syn: integrity, unity]

  2. a state of robust good health [syn: haleness]

Usage examples of "wholeness".

Even if the whole is a mutual interaction of parts, the wholeness cannot be on the same level as the partness or it would itself be merely another part, not a whole capable of embracing and integrating each and every part.

What deconstruction puts into question is the desire to find a final resting place, in either wholeness or partness or anything in between.

In short, how can I be both my own wholeness and a part of something larger, without sacrificing one or the other?

Where the Ego camps had developed a passion for what they saw as self-determination, independence, and self-responsibility, the Eco camps displayed an equal passion for what they saw as unity, wholeness, harmony.

Kosmos, because the more of the Kosmos is embraced in that wholeness, embraced in that depth.

If those rights are not met, the wholeness dissolves or disintegrates.

That is, they possess a certain depth, a certain wholeness, they are ends in themselves possessing intrinsic value.

Mar the wholeness of the redemption plan, and farewell to the incarnation and vicarious atonement.

But, as you see, they imitate the carefree Krishna, and they maintain that enjoyment of life gives bliss, and bliss gives serenity, and serenity gives wisdom, all together making for wholeness of soul.

He touched the manual controls, assisting the robots, correcting, revising, in a pattern of unformulated but bodily known harmonies, a dance, a dream, yielding, controlling, unselfness, Nirvana, peace, and wholeness.

It is a mystical truth, that reality at its deepest level is an undivided wholeness.

The fact that we cannot manage to achieve more than an unstable grasp of reality doubtless gives the measure of our present alienation: we constantly drift between the object and its demystification, powerless to render its wholeness.

By the time he reached the foredeck, he had regained not just calmness, but wholeness.

If those rights are not met, the wholeness dissolves or disintegrates.

All for those few climactic days when you have a sense of completion or wholeness.