noun
Meaning 1
The quality of being whole.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
wholeness
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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CMU ARPABET: HH OW1 L N IH0 S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
The entirety, the whole thing as opposed to part.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
a state of robust good health
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: haleness
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: good health, healthiness
noun
Meaning 4
an undivided or unbroken completeness or totality with nothing wanting
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the integrity of the nervous system is required for normal development
- he took measures to insure the territorial unity of Croatia
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: integrity, unity
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: state
Narrower terms: completeness, incompleteness, rawness
History
Etymology
From Middle English holnesse, holnes, from Old English hālnes (“wholeness”), equivalent to whole + -ness.
Across languages
Translations
26 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: цялост (cjalost) — quality of being whole
- Chinese Mandarin: 完整性 (wánzhěngxìng) — quality of being whole
- Czech: celost — quality of being whole
- Esperanto: tuteco — quality of being whole
- Finnish: kokonaisuus — quality of being whole
- Finnish: eheys — quality of being whole
- Finnish: koskemattomuus — quality of being whole
- Finnish: jakamattomuus — quality of being whole
- French: entièreté — quality of being whole
- German: Ganzheit — quality of being whole
- German: Ganzheitlichkeit — quality of being whole
- German: Vollständigkeit — quality of being whole
- Greek: ολότητα (olótita) — quality of being whole
- Hindi: समग्रता (samagratā) — quality of being whole
- Hindi: पूर्णता (pūrṇatā) — quality of being whole
- Italian: pienezza — quality of being whole
- Polish: całość — quality of being whole
- Romanian: deplinătate — quality of being whole
- Romanian: plenitudine — quality of being whole
- Romanian: caracter complet — quality of being whole
- Russian: це́лостность (célostnostʹ) — quality of being whole
- Russian: це́льность (célʹnostʹ) — quality of being whole
- Spanish: entereza — quality of being whole
- Spanish: integridad — quality of being whole
- Turkish: bütünlük — quality of being whole
- Turkish: tamlık — quality of being whole