What is the difference between wholistic and holistic?
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August 27th, 2017
A person who practices medicine, or nutrition, for example could refer to his/her practice as wholistic meaning the whole person, the mind and the body and…not just the body, ...but if they use the word holistic is it just a spelling error?
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“Holistic” is the correct spelling of the word. Don’t ask me why but it is.
Holistic is the correct term, and it means dealing in every aspect of something. Holistic medicine, for example, considers the mind and spirit in addition to the body, seeing them as inseparable parts of a whole. Grammatically it is related to hologram.
Wholistic, on the other hane, seems to be a trendy word playing on the playing on the fact that holistic deals with comple systems.
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What is the adjective of the word holy?
Holy is an adjective, and is not at all related to holistic.
I’m pretty sure with ‘Wholistic’, you close your eyes while someone reads Dr. Seuss books aloud….
Derived from the ancient comedians: Holy schtick Batman this is such fun.
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=holy
Holy has been used as an intensifying word from 1837; in expletives since 1880s (such as holy smoke, 1883, holy mackerel, 1876, holy cow, 1914, holy moly etc.), most of them euphemisms for holy Christ or holy Moses. Holy Ghost was in Old English (in Middle English often written as one word).
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=holism&allowed_in_frame=0
holism (n.) Look up holism at Dictionary.com
1926, apparently coined by South African Gen. J.C. Smuts (1870–1950) in his book “Holism and Evolution” which treats of evolution as a process of unification of separate parts; from Greek holos “whole” (see safe (adj.)) + -ism.
This character of “wholeness” meets us everywhere and points to something fundamental in the universe. Holism (from [holos] = whole) is the term here coined for this fundamental factor operative towards the creation of wholes in the universe. [Smuts, “Holism and Evolution,” p.86]
—“Wholly hologram, Batman !”‘x
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