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View synonyms for entirety

entirety

[ 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.



entirety

/ ɪnˈtaɪərɪtɪ /

noun

  1. the state of being entire or whole; completeness
  2. a thing, sum, amount, etc, that is entire; whole; total


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Word History and Origins

Origin of entirety1

1300–50; Middle English enter ( e ) te < Middle French entierete < Latin integritāt- (stem of integritās ). See integer, -ity

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Example Sentences

To hear from NBA commissioner Adam Silver, Andre Iguodala of the Miami Heat, and more analysis from Lashinsky, listen to the episode in its entirety.

From Fortune

This has to do with agriculture, with ranching, with the entirety of the way we run civilization.

Meryl Streep as Julia Child may go down as one of the best casting choices of the century, but the entirety of Julie & Julia — written and directed by Nora Ephron — is just as delightful.

From Vox

There is a catch for the television series—only the first episode of the first season can be viewed—but movies can be viewed in their entirety.

From Fortune

Wedbush Securities analyst Daniel Ives estimates Apple’s services division by itself is worth about $750 billion — about the same as Facebook currently is in its entirety.

From Fortune

A dam now in place on the Thai side of the line prevents the railway from being reconstructed in its entirety, he explains.

The idea of banning fraternities has been swirling around for the entirety of 2014.

Throughout the entirety of Black Prophetic Fire, he seems to use his celebrity to make the amateur error of arguing by authority.

The negative for The Big Parade is one of only a few from that era to survive in its entirety.

It nearly covered the entirety of my palm and had a Chinese poem carved on one side, with a bull on the other.

It's seeing people and objects in their weird entirety, in their true and complete shapes, that is so distressing.

The bill is read in its entirety when its turn comes on the calendar and the "Patron" explains carefully its contents.

Therefore regard must always be had for the thought,—that it may be expressed in its perfect fullness and entirety.

Though itself were a single being, this its thought divided the unity because of its inability to grasp it in its entirety.

From an atom that went to make up the motive power of a great metropolis, he himself became an entirety.

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