Totality
[tə(ʊ)'tælɪtɪ] or [to'tæləti]
Definition
(noun.) the quality of being complete and indiscriminate; 'the totality of war and its consequences'; 'the all-embracing totality of the state'.
Editor: Patrick--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The quality or state of being total; as, the totality of an eclipse.
(n.) The whole sum; the whole quantity or amount; the entirety; as, the totalityof human knowledge.
Typist: Virginia
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Whole, TOTAL.
Edited by Arnold
Examples
- I noticed that they all went to roost just before totality. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- At the same time a slight wind arose, and at the moment of totality the atmosphere was filled with thistle-down and other light articles. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Totality means continuity--the carrying on of a former habit of action with the readaptation necessary to keep it alive and growing. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- From this point of view, totality does not mean the hopeless task of a quantitative summation. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
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