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WHOLENESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A state of robust good health
Synonyms:
haleness; wholeness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
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)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An undivided or unbroken completeness or totality with nothing wanting
Example:
he took measures to insure the territorial unity of Croatia
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
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)
