0 dealing with or treating the whole of something or someone and not just a part:
1 relating to the whole of something or to the total system instead of just to its parts
He thus covered the three main divisions of the holistic concept of culture.
For the right hemisphere disconnected from the left one, the world is holistic but not polysemantic.
Rehabilitation nursing has aspirations towards a more holistic approach which stresses health and wellness rather than disability and illness.
This paper explores dynamic approaches to categorizing and gendering artefacts for more holistic investigations of artefact assemblages.
Two approaches have been used in anchoring holistic utility values.
Both syntax and prosody provide holistic construction schemata that are realized with flexible beginnings and ends, as well as flexible details of their internal structure.
They distinguish between algorithmic comparisons and non-algorithmic comparisons, which correspond, roughly, to component comparisons and holistic comparisons.
On holistic coherence theories, the base contains a whole range of legal materials.