holistic.html - {n.}, {informal}, {semi-technical} The maintenance of health and the avoidance of disease through such psychogenic practices and procedures as biofeedback, meditation, alternative methods of childbirth, and avoidance of drugs. * /The Murgatroyds are regular holistic health freaks - why, they won't even take aspirin when they have a headache./

holistic.html - {n.}, {informal}, {semi-technical} The maintenance of health and the avoidance of disease through such psychogenic practices and procedures as biofeedback, meditation, alternative methods of childbirth, and avoidance of drugs. * /The Murgatroyds are regular holistic health freaks - why, they won't even take aspirin when they have a headache./

holistic.html - n.
(also wholism)
1 Philos. the theory that certain wholes are to be regarded as greater than the sum of their parts (cf. REDUCTIONISM).
2 Med. the treating of the whole person including mental and social factors rather than just the symptoms of a disease.

holistic adj. holistically adv. [as HOLO- + -ISM]

holistic.html - See: HALF-HOLIDAY.

holistic.html - {adj.} Acting as if you are better than others in goodness, character, or reverence for God; acting as if morally better than other people. * /Most people find holier-than-thou actions in others hard to accept./ * /After Mr. Howard stopped smoking, he had a holier-than-thou manner toward his friends who still smoked./

holistic.html - {n.}, {informal}, {semi-technical} The maintenance of health and the avoidance of disease through such psychogenic practices and procedures as biofeedback, meditation, alternative methods of childbirth, and avoidance of drugs. * /The Murgatroyds are regular holistic health freaks - why, they won't even take aspirin when they have a headache./