3 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

totality

noun

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}]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:

Totality \To*tal"i*ty\, noun [Cf. F. totalite, LL. totalitas.]

1. The quality or state of being total; as, the totality of an eclipse.

2. The whole sum; the whole quantity or amount; the entirety; as, the totality of human knowledge. --Buckle.

The totality of a sentence or passage. --Coleridge.

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

75 Moby Thesaurus words for "totality": 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

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