Favourable to morals, religion or prosperity; sensible; conducive to good; salutary; promoting virtue or being virtuous.
Marked by wholeness; sound and healthy.
Decent; innocuous; sweet.
I quote this not as an authority on what the word “really means”, but as a record of how the word is generally used. Notice the words “morals”, “good”, and “virtuous” in the third.
All of these words name things, but none of them anything precise. Each is likely to appear in a definition of any other. They point to clouds that overlap more than they differ. To a large extent they are interchangeable. No precise distinction can be communicated by the words alone, only by talking in concrete terms of what sorts of things exemplify the intended concepts.
But I will be interested to see the subsequent essays.
Here is Wiktionary on “wholesome”
I quote this not as an authority on what the word “really means”, but as a record of how the word is generally used. Notice the words “morals”, “good”, and “virtuous” in the third.
All of these words name things, but none of them anything precise. Each is likely to appear in a definition of any other. They point to clouds that overlap more than they differ. To a large extent they are interchangeable. No precise distinction can be communicated by the words alone, only by talking in concrete terms of what sorts of things exemplify the intended concepts.
But I will be interested to see the subsequent essays.