totality
- noun
- /toʊˈtælɪti/
- To understand the totality of the issue, we must consider all aspects and perspectives.
- totality of human experience
- totality of facts
- totality of things
And trying to explain the totality of why it exists.
- And trying to explain the totality of why it exists.
- Now the handbag represents them having the totality of all knowledge.
- All I have is a memory is just this totality of whiteness.
- So it's all of those things in, in totality, right?
- And for all intents and purposes in totality, the system is more or less a scam.
- And so this affects the totality of your body.
- You've got to think about the bits of the word as well as the word in its totality.
- But in the totality of the relationship, he was not the man she needed him to be.
- We we should just use this the totality of human knowledge in the present.
- Help me square the your sort of the totality of your DNA and your experiences.
- The second thing is also about that totality.
- So what we have in totality, the world has more than it has ever had, Right.
Examples
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You must be beginning to comprehend the stunning totality of your failure.
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But in the totality of the relationship, he was not the man she needed him to be.
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Going wrong is part of the totality of how life experiences itself.
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Only God knows the full totality of who I am.
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We must not forget this if we are to understand the totality of who we are.
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It's a totality of his emotional commitment to the task at hand.
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So far, we have spoken of the self as the totality of an individual's inner states and operations.
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The totality and power of the media is an ongoing negotiation.
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The totality of microscopic elements.
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The entirety of the yard, the neighborhood, and invariably the totality of the town was sunny.
Fiction book (1995)
Synonyms
All of something seen as one unit
The whole amount you get when you add numbers together
The whole of something that includes every part
The total you get when you add two or more numbers
The total amount formed by adding several separate parts
The state of having everything needed
A feeling of being complete and not missing anything in life
Covering all or most important parts
A state of being everything that exists
A state of being whole and complete
A state when something is whole and has all its parts
A state that is complete and leaves no doubt
A belief that one idea includes everything
Antonyms
How Complete
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Totality comes from the Latin root totus, which means 'whole'. Think of total as 'all' or everything together, and that's why totality means the whole amount or the complete state.