totality

[ toh-tal-i-tee ]
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noun,plural to·tal·i·ties.
  1. something that is total or constitutes a total; the total amount; a whole.

  2. the state of being total; entirety.

  1. Astronomy. total obscuration in an eclipse.

Origin of totality

1
First recorded in 1590–1600; total + -ity

Words Nearby totality

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How to use totality in a sentence

  • The totality of his impressions washed through him with a clear wave of icy shock.

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  • Each of them remains one, such as it was; but two can be asserted of their totality, and one of each of them separately.

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  • If the body be the composite of all the qualities together with matter, this totality of qualities will constitute corporeity.

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  • All these organs, however, are implied in the unity of the animal, and they are inferior only relatively to the totality.

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  • The totality (of the intelligible world) is beautiful, because what is common (to all beings), does not offer any differences.

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British Dictionary definitions for totality

totality

/ (təʊˈtælɪtɪ) /


nounplural -ties
  1. the whole amount

  2. the state of being total

  1. the state or period of an eclipse when light from the eclipsed body is totally obscured

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