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holistic, a.
[f. as holism + -istic.]
a. Of or pertaining to holism; characterized by the tendency to perceive or produce wholes. Cf. holism.
1926[see holism]. 1927Brit. Weekly 20 Jan. 418/4 The real entities of the material world must, like organisms, be creative, self-transcending, functional. They must be Holistic unities. 1931Smuts in Times 2 Sept. 7/7 Instead of the animistic, or the mechanistic, or the mathematical universe, we see the genetic, organic, holistic universe. 1964Punch 20 May 736/1 If..we view a person as a large..holistic, versatile, symbol processing system. 1970New Scientist 9 July 96/1 Each level is equipped with its own ‘laws of organization’, ‘intrinsic patterns’ or whatever ‘holistic’ term you prefer to choose. 1971Nature 13 Aug. 504/2 Professor J. S. Weiner has pioneered the modern holistic approach to the study of man. 1971F. A. Stafleu Linnaeus & Linnaeans ii. 39 ‘Canon’ means here ‘general rule or axiom’ and has overtones of ‘genuine and inspired’, known instinctively by a holistic, not an analytical, approach to the phenomena of life.
b. holistic medicine, a form of medical treatment that attempts to deal with the whole person and not merely with his or her physical condition.
1960F. H. Hoffman et al. in Psychosomatics I. 249/2 Throughout the United States, concern with teaching about the whole man—‘holistic’ or comprehensive medicine—is a growing phenomenon in the medical school curriculum. 1976Ann. Internal Med. LXXXIV. 603/1 The inability of physicians, psychiatrists included, to practice a genuinely holistic medicine that integrates knowledge of the body, the mind, and the environment is striking. 1980San Francisco Bay Guardian 16–23 Oct. 11/2 Where traditional Western medicine identifies and attacks symptoms, holistic medicine seeks to identify the underlying conditions in the client's life that have caused the illness or allowed it to happen and then to alleviate them. 1984Sunday Tel. 17 June 15/8 Priests and ministers are increasingly asked for services of healing and the laying-on of hands—by a public increasingly drawn to alternative and holistic medicine.
Hence hoˈlistically adv.
1926J. C. Smuts Holism & Evol. 127 There is a synthesis which makes the elements or parts act as one or holistically. 1961J. Wilson Reason & Morals ii. 117 There may be sane people who do not ‘appreciate’ (i.e. respond holistically to) works of art or to nature. |