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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

ENTI'RETY, n. Wholeness; completeness; as entirety of interest.
1. The whole.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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]

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural -ties) Date: 1548 1. the state of being entire or complete 2. sum total, whole

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (pl. -ies) 1 completeness. 2 (usu. foll. by of) the sum total. Phrases and idioms: in its entirety in its complete form; completely. Etymology: ME f. OF entiereté f. L integritas -tatis f. integer: see ENTIRE

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Entirety En*tire"ty, n.; pl. Entireness. [OF. entieret['e]. Cf. Integrity.] 1. The state of being entire; completeness; as, entirely of interest. --Blackstone. 2. That which is entire; the whole. --Bacon.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If something is used or affected in its entirety, the whole of it is used or affected. The peace plan has not been accepted in its entirety by all parties. PHRASE: PHR after v

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Wholeness. See entireness. 2. Whole, sum total, entire amount, undiminished quantity.

Moby Thesaurus

aggregate, all, allness, be-all and end-all, collectiveness, collectivity, completeness, complex, comprehensiveness, embodiment, entireness, everything, exhaustiveness, fullness, gross, inclusiveness, intactness, integer, integrality, integration, integrity, omneity, omnipresence, oneness, organic unity, perfection, pervasiveness, plenitude, solidarity, solidity, sum, sum total, thoroughness, total, totality, tote, ubiquity, unity, universality, whole, wholeness