holism

Term: holism

Literally meaning: “the idea of whole”

Origin: Anc Greek

ὅλος/holos(=whole, all, entire)

+ισμός/-ismos(=ism denoting “an action”, “state”, “tendency”)

Coined/History

The noun “holism” was coined by the South African statesman and philosopher Jan Smuts (1870-1950) in his book, Holism and Evolytion. Smuts defined holism as “The tendency in nature to form wholes that are greater than the sum of the pats through creative evolution”.

Source

Jan C. Smuts, 1926 Holism and Evolution MacMillan, Compass/Viking Press 1961, reprinted Sierra Sunrise 1999 (milly edited) ISBN1-887263-14-4

Definition

Holistic is any system which is considered as whole and not in separate parts  such as holistic health in which includes any mental physical empotional and spiritual aspects.