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Of Many Things
How about that much used, often abused word holistic or wholistic? (I compromise, as you may have noted by writing it w/holistic.) Turning to the dictionary (in my case, the New Webster's Dictionary of the English Language)one finds only holism there, broken down to the adjective holistic.
Both are defined as "the theory that a being has an identity other than and exceeding the total or sum of its parts". Which is why many think it should be uniformly spelled wholistic; indicating the whole, rather than a hole, indicating emptiness, a hollow or a gap! (Actually to the Greeks, hol, meant whole, I have to be honest about it.)