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[ noun ] the state of being total

Synonyms

entirety entireness

Examples

: "appalled by the totality of the destruction"

Used in print

(Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land....)

The word `` church '' which turned_up over_and_over_again among Jubal 's words gave him knotty difficulty ; there was no Martian concept to match it - unless one took `` church '' and `` worship '' and `` God '' and `` congregation '' and many other words and equated them to the totality of the only world he had known during growing waiting & & & then forced the concept back into English in_that phrase which had been rejected ( by each differently ) by Jubal , by Mahmoud , by Digby .

Related terms

completeness whole_shebang

2
[ noun ] the quality of being complete and indiscriminate

Examples

: "the totality of war and its consequences" "the all-embracing totality of the state"

Related terms

generality

3
[ noun ] the whole amount

Synonyms

total aggregate sum

Related terms

whole total aggregate

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