say it: hoh-LI-stik
holistic is an adjective meaning "emphasizing the organic or functional relation between parts and the whole". It carries one recorded sense.
emphasizing the organic or functional relation between parts and the whole
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for holistic come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.