Definition for WHOLE'SOME-NESS

WHOLE'SOME-NESS, n.

  1. The quality of contributing to health; salubrity; as, the wholesomeness of air or diet.
  2. Salutariness; conduciveness to the health of the mind or of the body politic; as, the wholesomeness of doctrines or laws.

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