Meanings
plural wholenesses
- uncountableusuallyThe quality of being whole.
- uncountableusuallyThe entirety, the whole thing as opposed to part.
1 more example
It is not that the radical feminists are not interested in the workplace but that women from the left parties tackle the issue in a traditional way — like demanding equal payment for equal work. We thought that was absolutely insufficient. We focussed more on the wholeness of women's oppression and that if you don't first look at the role of women in the family, then you can't even understand, not to mention act upon, their underpayment at the workplace.
1981 December 19, Nancy Wechsler, Christine Delphy, “Politics In France”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 22, page 8
Synonyms & antonyms
nounan undivided or unbroken completeness or totality with nothing wanting
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Old Englishhālnes“wholeness”
- Middle Englishholnesse
- Englishwholeness
From Middle English holnesse, holnes, from Old English hālnes (“wholeness”), equivalent to whole + -ness.
More words from Middle English, Old English
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Bulgarian цялост
- цялост (cjalost)quality of being whole
Chinese Mandarin 完整性
- 完整性 (wánzhěngxìng)quality of being whole
Czech celost
- celostquality of being whole
Esperanto tuteco
- tutecoquality of being whole
Finnish kokonaisuus, eheys
- kokonaisuusquality of being whole
- eheysquality of being whole
- koskemattomuusquality of being whole
- jakamattomuusquality of being whole
French entièreté
- entièretéquality of being whole
German Ganzheit, Ganzheitlichkeit
- Ganzheitquality of being whole
- Ganzheitlichkeitquality of being whole
- Vollständigkeitquality of being whole
Greek ολότητα
- ολότητα (olótita)quality of being whole
Hindi समग्रता, पूर्णता
- समग्रता (samagratā)quality of being whole
- पूर्णता (pūrṇatā)quality of being whole
Italian pienezza
- pienezzaquality of being whole
Polish całość
- całośćquality of being whole
Portuguese Inteiro, inteiro
- Inteiroquality of being whole
- inteiroquality of being whole
Romanian deplinătate, plenitudine
- deplinătatequality of being whole
- plenitudinequality of being whole
- caracter completquality of being whole
Russian це́лостность, це́льность
- це́лостность (célostnostʹ)quality of being whole
- це́льность (célʹnostʹ)quality of being whole
Spanish entereza, integridad
- enterezaquality of being whole
- integridadquality of being whole
Turkish bütünlük, tamlık
- bütünlükquality of being whole
- tamlıkquality of being whole
Cite this entry
wholeness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wholeness
“wholeness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wholeness. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “wholeness,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wholeness.
Source: wholeness on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.