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HOLISTIC
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Emphasizing the organic or functional relation between parts and the whole
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Antonym:
atomistic (divided into separate and often disparate elements)
Derivation:
holism (the theory that the parts of any whole cannot exist and cannot be understood except in their relation to the whole)