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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

TOTAL'ITY, n. The whole sum; whole quantity or amount.

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]
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]

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural -ties) Date: 1598 1. an aggregate amount ; sum, whole 2. a. the quality or state of being total ; wholeness b. the phase of an eclipse during which it is total ; state of total eclipse

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 the complete amount or sum. 2 Astron. the time during which an eclipse is total.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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. 2. The whole sum; the whole quantity or amount; the entirety; as, the totalityof human knowledge. --Buckle. The totality of a sentence or passage. --Coleridge.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

The totality of something is the whole of it. (FORMAL) ...a process of social, economic and political change which involves the totality of human experience... N-UNCOUNT: oft N of n, in its/their N

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Whole, total, entirety.

Moby Thesaurus

Copernican universe, Einsteinian universe, Newtonian universe, Ptolemaic universe, aggregate, all, all being, all creation, all hands, all the world, allness, alpha and omega, be-all and end-all, beginning and end, collectivity, completeness, complex, comprehensiveness, cosmos, created nature, created universe, creation, embodiment, entireness, entirety, every man Jack, everybody, everyone, everything that is, exhaustiveness, expanding universe, form, fullness, holism, inclusiveness, intactness, integer, integrality, integration, integrity, macrocosm, macrocosmos, megacosm, metagalaxy, nature, omneity, omnipresence, one and all, oneness, organic unity, pervasiveness, plenum, pulsating universe, sidereal universe, solidarity, solidity, steady-state universe, sum of things, sum total, system, thoroughness, total, total approach, totality of being, tout le monde, ubiquity, unity, universality, universe, whole, whole wide world, wholeness, wide world, world, world without end