WHOLESOMENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wholesomeness mean? 

• WHOLESOMENESS (noun)
  The noun WHOLESOMENESS has 1 sense:

1. the quality of being beneficial and generally good for you

  Familiarity information: WHOLESOMENESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WHOLESOMENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being beneficial and generally good for you

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("wholesomeness" is a kind of...):

quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wholesomeness"):

nutritiousness; nutritiveness (the quality of being nourishing and promoting healthy growth)

healthfulness (the quality of promoting good health)

Antonym:

unwholesomeness (the quality of being unhealthful and generally bad for you)

Derivation:

wholesome (sound or exhibiting soundness in body or mind)

wholesome (conducive to or characteristic of physical or moral well-being)

 Context examples 

The gruel came and supplied a great deal to be said—much praise and many comments—undoubting decision of its wholesomeness for every constitution, and pretty severe Philippics upon the many houses where it was never met with tolerably;—but, unfortunately, among the failures which the daughter had to instance, the most recent, and therefore most prominent, was in her own cook at South End, a young woman hired for the time, who never had been able to understand what she meant by a basin of nice smooth gruel, thin, but not too thin.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)