wholisticadj.

1937 Ecology 18 542 The wide influence of the ecological attitude in biological and sociological fields is merely a manifestation of a wholistic tendency.

1962 R. Hauser & H. Hauser Fraternal Soc. ii. iv. 181 Our approach to the problems of violence is wholistic.

1972 L. S. Hearnsaw in C. B. Cox & A. E. Dyson 20th-cent. Mind I. vii. 232 Between the wars a new brand of psychology was born, the psychology of personality, wholistic in its presuppositions.

1982 Washington Post 12 June b7/3 Wholistic medicine is compatible with a ‘basic theological assumption’ that mind, body and spirit work best when most unified.

2008 M. Stephenson Sage Age ix. 227 There is a wholistic nature to the way an entire biological system works that cannot be discovered by researching individual components of that system.

1940 T. H. Howells Hunger for Wholiness vi. 173 Above all else sex should be treated as an aspect of the whole, instead of the creator of it, which is to say aesthetically and wholistically.

1964 F. H. Blum in I. L. Horowitz New Sociol. 166 Being concerned with the totality of the human situation, he [sc. Mills] dealt with them [sc. key problems] wholistically.

2014 K. Sitzman & J. Watson Caring Sci., Mindful Pract. i. 5 Professional practice sometimes blunted my ability to fully and wholistically care for myself and others.