noun
Meaning 1
The state of being total.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
totality
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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General-American: /toʊˈtælɪti/
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rhymes with -ælɪti
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CMU ARPABET: T OW0 T AE1 L AH0 T IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
An aggregate quantity obtained by addition.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
- the totality of your offspring
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
The phase of an eclipse when it is total.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: astronomy, natural-sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
the whole amount
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: sum, total, aggregate
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: whole, unit
noun
Meaning 5
the quality of being complete and indiscriminate
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the totality of war and its consequences
- the all-embracing totality of the state
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: generality
noun
Meaning 6
the state of being total and complete
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- he read the article in its entirety
- appalled by the totality of the destruction
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: entirety, entireness, integrality
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: completeness
Narrower terms: whole shebang, whole kit and caboodle, kit and caboodle, whole kit and boodle, kit and boodle, whole kit, whole caboodle, whole works, works, full treatment
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English total Proto-Indo-European *-teh2 Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh2ts Latin -itāsder. Old French -itebor. Middle English -ite English -ity English totality From total + -ity.
Across languages
Translations
24 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: цялостност (cjalostnost) — state of being total
- Bulgarian: съвкупност (sǎvkupnost) — state of being total
- Catalan: totalitat — state of being total
- Esperanto: tutaĵo — state of being total
- Finnish: kokonaisuus — state of being total
- French: totalité — state of being total
- Galician: totalidade — state of being total
- German: Gesamtheit — state of being total
- Hindi: समग्रता (samagratā) — state of being total
- Hindi: पूर्णता (pūrṇatā) — state of being total
- Macedonian: севкупност (sevkupnost) — state of being total
- Macedonian: потполност (potpolnost) — state of being total
- Macedonian: целокупност (celokupnost) — state of being total
- Romanian: totalitate — state of being total
- Russian: совоку́пность (sovokúpnostʹ) — state of being total
- Russian: целоку́пность (celokúpnostʹ) — state of being total
- Spanish: totalidad — state of being total
- Swedish: helhet — state of being total
- Turkish: bütünlük — state of being total
- Finnish: yhteismäärä — aggregate quantity
- Finnish: summa — aggregate quantity
- Finnish: täydellisyys — astronomy: phase of an eclipse
- German: Totalität — astronomy: phase of an eclipse
- Irish: lándorchadas — astronomy: phase of an eclipse
Real reading context