entirety

(ĕn-tī'rĭ-tē, -tīr'tē)
n., pl., -ties.

1. The state of being entire or complete; wholeness: To appreciate the poem, one must read it in its entirety.
2. The entire amount or extent; the whole: "We rarely remember the entirety of the plot" (Anthony Burgess).

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noun

1. The state of being entirely whole: completeness, integrity, oneness, totality, wholeness. See part/whole.
2. An amount or quantity from which nothing is left out or held back: aggregate, all, everything, gross, sum, total, totality, whole. Informal work (used in plural). Idioms: everythingbutexceptthe kitchen sink, lock, stock, and barrel, the wholeball of waxkit and caboodlemegillahnine yardsshebang. See part/whole.

n

Definition: wholeness, whole
Antonyms: fraction, incompleteness, part, partiality, section

This entry contains information applicable to United States law only.

The whole, in contradistinction to a moiety or part only. When land is conveyed to husband and wife, they do not take by moieties, but both are seised of the entirety. Parceners, on the other hand, have not an entirety of interest, but each is properly entitled to the whole of a distinct moiety.

The word is also used to designate that which the law considers as one whole, and not capable of being divided into parts. Thus, a judgment, it is held, is an entirety, and, if void as to one of the two defendants, cannot be valid as to the other. Also, if a contract is an entirety, no part of the consideration is due until the whole has been performed.

See words rhyming with "entirety."

Dansk (Danish)
n. - helhed

idioms:

• in its entirety    i sin helhed, komplet

Nederlands (Dutch)
totaliteit, eenheid

Français (French)
n. - totalité, intégralité

idioms:

• in its entirety    intégralement, en son entier

Deutsch (German)
n. - Gesamtheit

idioms:

• in its entirety    in seiner Gesamtheit

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - ολότητα, σύνολο

idioms:

• in its entirety    συνολικά

Italiano (Italian)
totalità

idioms:

• in its entirety    per intero, nell'insieme

Português (Portuguese)
n. - totalidade (f), integridade (f)

idioms:

• in its entirety    em sua totalidade

Русский (Russian)
полнота

idioms:

• in its entirety    в целом

Español (Spanish)
n. - totalidad, plenitud

idioms:

• in its entirety    en su totalidad, completamente

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - helhet

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
全部, 完全

idioms:

• in its entirety    完全地, 整个地, 全面地

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 全部, 完全

idioms:

• in its entirety    完全地, 整個地, 全面地

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 완전

idioms:

• in its entirety    고스란히 그대로

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 完全, そっくりそのまま, 全体, 全部

idioms:

• in its entirety    そっくりそのまま

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) كل, التماميه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮שלמות, סך הכל‬

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