单词 | wholist |
释义 | wholistn.adj. A. n. ΚΠ 1894 Illustr. Amer. 8 Sept. 293/2 Mr. Debs is a wholist, a constructionist and a factor in the ranks of democracy. 2. A proponent or advocate of wholism; a person whose attitudes or behaviour are characterized by wholism. Cf. holist n. at holism n. Derivatives. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > [noun] > a complex whole > an organized or collective whole > number of things seen as > one who wholist1931 1931 Manch. Guardian 3 July 10/6 (heading) The wholists and the partists. 1940 Amer. Naturalist 74 34 The opposing camp of extreme ‘wholists’ who wanted the attribute of individuality strictly reserved to the organism as a whole. 1948 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 61 298 ‘The wholeness, integrationist school of human behaviour’, to which..the wholists, and some estheticists have also made contributions. 1962 R. Hauser & H. Hauser Fraternal Soc. ii. ii. 121 As wholists we ask, is not all this..activity..useless. 2005 M. Jarvis Psychol. Effective Learning & Teaching viii. 176 Wholists were more likely to leap from one area to another unpredictably. B. adj. Of, relating to, or characterized by wholism. Cf. holistic adj. a. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > [adjective] > relating to doctrine or study holistic1926 wholistic1937 wholist1944 1944 A. E. Morgan E. Bellamy Pref. p. viii The wholist school of philosophy can find in Edward Bellamy a pioneer and a prophet. 1956 J. S. Bruner et al. Study of Thinking v. 131 We shall refer to the ideal strategy just described as the wholist strategy. 1974 H. J. Klausmeier et al. Conceptual Learning & Devel. iii. 67 We rarely receive information in a nice sequence of positive instances so that we may adopt a wholist strategy. 2008 T. Mortimore Dyslexia & Learning Style (ed. 2) vi. 118 Even if a learner tends towards the wholist approach in general, they may cling to the inchworm strategies in maths. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.adj.1894 |
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