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holotropic

/ˈhɒləˌtɹɒpɪk/adjective

holotropic is spelled H-O-L-O-T-R-O-P-I-C: 10 letters. It appears about once in every 89 million words in written English, the 301,415th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, holotropic means “Oriented or moving towards wholeness” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in holotropic?

Letters10: H-O-L-O-T-R-O-P-I-C
In writingabout once in every 89 million words; the 301,415th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is holotropic?

Holotropic appears about once in every 89 million words in written English, the 301,415th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce holotropic?

  • /ˈhɒləˌtɹɒpɪk/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does holotropic mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    Oriented or moving towards wholeness.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Holotropic in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense Translations:

LanguageWords
Frenchholotropique
Spanishholotrópico

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does holotropic come from?

Coined by psychiatrist Stanislav Grof. From ὅλος (hólos, “whole”) + -tropic (“turning or changing”), from τροπή (tropḗ, “movement towards something”) and τρέπω (trépō, “turn towards something”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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