totality
[toh-
tal
-i-tee]
/toʊˈtæl ɪ ti/
noun
,
plural
totalities.
1.
something that is
total
or constitutes a
total
; the
total
amount; a whole.
2.
the state of being
total
; entirety.
3.
Astronomy,
total
obscuration in an eclipse.
Origin
1590-1600;
total
+
-ity
Examples from the web for
totality
The typical approach mentality of people today is to narrow down a problem, but miss the overall impact in the
totality
of things.
The
totality
of their evidence proves this with unswerving consistency.
Education is more than college, more even than the
totality
of your formal schooling, from kindergarten through graduate school.
They all have their place in the
totality
of the human search for understanding.
The
totality
of that is intimately related to the
totality
of the universe.
When the
totality
of sugar is digested, the yeasts are recovered to treat the next batch.
Holistic property is the result of never ending entanglement of all
totality
of quanta present in information space.
But the
totality
is comprised of its apparent parts.
Humor is not a reflection of the
totality
of cultural ideas on a topic.
But the
totality
of the suffering and horrific nature of genocide has to be evil in every instance.
British Dictionary definitions for
totality
totality
/
təʊˈtælɪtɪ
/
noun
(
pl
)
-ties
1.
the whole amount
2.
the state of being total
3.
the state or period of an eclipse when light from the eclipsed body is totally obscured
Word Origin and History for
totality
n.
1590s, from
total
(adj.) +
-ity
. In the eclipse sense, from 1842.