en·tire·ty

[en-tahyuhr-tee, -tahy-ri-]
noun, plural en·tire·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; Middle English enter(e)te < Middle French entierete < Latin integritāt- (stem of integritās). See integer, -ity

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entirety (ɪnˈtaɪərɪtɪ) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
—n , pl -ties
1.  the state of being entire or whole; completeness
2.  a thing, sum, amount, etc, that is entire; whole; total

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entirety
1540s, from Anglo-Fr. entiertie, from O.Fr. entierete, from L. integritatem, from integer (see entire).
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Example sentences
They wanted to address the legislature in its entirety.
The original single-player storyline will also be included in its entirety.
All they have is a nuclear option: the power to reject the commission in its
  entirety.
But the other sense of the word limited is that what you see now is not the
  entirety of the feature set.
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