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English

Noun

the state of being total
an aggregate quantity obtained by addition
the phase of an eclipse when it is total

Translations

Romanian: {{t-|ro|totalitate|f}}

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Totality \To*tal"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. totalite, LL. totalitas.]
1. The quality or state of being total; as, the totality of
an eclipse.
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2. The whole sum; the whole quantity or amount; the entirety;
as, the totality of human knowledge. --Buckle.
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The totality of a sentence or passage. --Coleridge.
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WordNet totality
n 1: the state of being total; "appalled by the totality of the
destruction" [syn: entirety, entireness]
2: the quality of being complete and indiscriminate; "the
totality of war and its consequences"; "the all-embracing
totality of the state"
3: the whole amount [syn: sum, total, aggregate]

Moby Dictionary
Copernican universe , Einsteinian universe , Newtonian universe ,
Ptolemaic universe , aggregate , all , all being , all creation ,
all hands , all the world , allness , alpha and omega ,
be-all and end-all , beginning and end , collectivity , completeness ,
complex , comprehensiveness , cosmos , created nature ,
created universe , creation , embodiment , entireness , entirety ,
every man Jack , everybody , everyone , everything that is ,
exhaustiveness , expanding universe , form , fullness , holism ,
inclusiveness , intactness , integer , integrality , integration ,
integrity , macrocosm , macrocosmos , megacosm , metagalaxy , nature ,
omneity , omnipresence , one and all , oneness , organic unity ,
pervasiveness , plenum , pulsating universe , sidereal universe ,
solidarity , solidity , steady-state universe , sum of things ,
sum total , system , thoroughness , total , total approach ,
totality of being , tout le monde , ubiquity , unity , universality ,
universe , whole , whole wide world , wholeness , wide world , world ,
world without end

TOTALITY. The whole sum or quantity. 2. In making a tender, it is requisite that the totality of the sum due should be offered, together with the interest and costs. Vide Tender.