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noun

Totality n.

The quality or state of being total; as, the totality of an eclipse.

The whole sum; the whole quantity or amount; the entirety; as, the totality of human knowledge. "The totality of a sentence or passage."

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Etymology of 'Totality'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Totality" Quotes from Famous Books

... ARE subtle enough to put off the scent a woman who has but half a nose." Mrs. Brookenham as she spoke appeared to attest by the pretty star-gazing way she thrust it into the air her own possession of the totality of such a feature. "I don't know yet quite what I think, but one wakes up to such ...

— The Awkward Age • Henry James

... of this rather startling conclusion rests by no means exclusively upon the finding of pithecanthropus and the other fossils, nor indeed upon any paleontological evidence whatever. These, of course, furnish data of a very tangible and convincing kind; but the evidence in its totality includes also a host of data from the realms of embryology and comparative anatomy—data which, as already suggested, enabled Professor Haeckel to predicate the existence of pithecanthropus long in advance of his actual discovery. Whether the more remote ...

— A History of Science, Volume 5(of 5) - Aspects Of Recent Science • Henry Smith Williams

... to the ancestors of the house; the various corporations into which families were grouped, the local divisions for the purpose of taxation, elections, and the like, derived a spiritual unity from the worship of a common god; and finally the all-embracing totality of the state itself was explained and justified to all its members by the cult of the special protecting deity to whom its origin and prosperous continuance were due. The sailor who saw, on turning the point of Sunium, the tip of the spear of Athene glittering on the Acropolis, ...

— The Greek View of Life • Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson

... though it presented no threat, through Holding the Correct Thought, praying daily for its miraculous disappearance, preferably at a simultaneous moment, to reorganizing the spiritual concepts of the human totality. ...

— Greener Than You Think • Ward Moore

... wholly unlike that of Ben Jonson or Beaumont and Fletcher. The latter see the totality of a sentence or passage, and then project it entire. Shakspeare goes on creating, and evolving B. out of A., and C. out of B., and so on, just as a serpent moves, which makes a fulcrum of its own body, and seems for ever twisting ...

— Specimens of the Table Talk of S.T.Coleridge • Coleridge

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