Totality

//toʊˈtælɪti// noun

noun ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The state of being total. countable, uncountable

    "There are a number of SCPs and tales that look at potential apocalypses, but rarely with such totality as SCP-2935, a parallel dimension in which death prevailed."

  2. 2
    the whole amount wordnet
  3. 3
    An aggregate quantity obtained by addition. countable, uncountable

    "the totality of your offspring"

  4. 4
    the quality of being complete and indiscriminate wordnet
  5. 5
    The phase of an eclipse when it is total. countable, uncountable
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  1. 6
    the state of being total and complete wordnet

Synonyms

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entiretyentiretyaggregateaggregateallall being

Example

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"Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth."

Etymology

From total + -ity.

Related phrases

in its totalityin totalitypath of totalitytotality of the circumstances

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