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en·tire·ty

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–noun, plural -ties.

1.	the state of being entire; completeness: Homer's Iliad is rarely read in its entirety.

2.	something that is entire; the whole: He devoted the entirety of his life to medical research.

[Origin: 1300–50; ME enter(e)te < MF entierete < L integritāt- (s. of integritās). See integer, -ity

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n. pl. en·tire·ties

The state of being entire or complete; wholeness: To appreciate the poem, one must read it in its entirety.
The entire amount or extent; the whole: "We rarely remember the entirety of the plot" (Anthony Burgess).

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entirety
noun
the state of being total and complete; "he read the article in its entirety"; "appalled by the totality of the destruction"

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enˈtirety [-rəti] noun

completeness

Arabic:	كُل، مُجْموع، مُجمَل
Chinese (Simplified):	整体，总体
Chinese (Traditional):	整體，總體
Czech:	úplnost
Danish:	helhed; fuldstændighed
Dutch:	geheel
Estonian:	tervik
Finnish:	kokonaisuus
French:	totalité
German:	die Gesamtheit
Greek:	ολότητα
Hungarian:	teljesség
Icelandic:	heild
Indonesian:	kelengkapan
Italian:	interezza

Japanese:	全体
Korean:	완전 무결
Latvian:	kopums; veselums
Lithuanian:	visuma
Norwegian:	helhet
Polish:	całość
Portuguese (Brazil):	inteireza
Portuguese (Portugal):	totalidade
Romanian:	totalitate
Russian:	полнота;цельность
Slovak:	celistvosť
Slovenian:	celota
Spanish:	totalidad
Swedish:	helhet, fullständighet
Turkish:	bütünlük