[syn: sum, total, totality, aggregate]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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 (r) 3.0 (2006):
totality
n 1: the state of being total and complete; "he read the article
in its entirety"; "appalled by the totality of the
destruction" [syn: entirety, entireness, integrality,
totality]
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, totality,
aggregate]