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Dictionary: to·tal·i·ty   (tō-tăl'ĭ-tē) pronunciation
n., pl., -ties.
  1. The quality or state of being total: appalled by the totality of the destruction.
  2. An aggregate amount; a sum.
  3. The phase of an eclipse when it is total.

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noun

  1. The state of being entirely whole: completeness, entirety, integrity, oneness, wholeness. See part/whole.
  2. An amount or quantity from which nothing is left out or held back: aggregate, all, entirety, everything, gross, sum, total, whole. Informal work (used in plural). Idioms: everything but/except the kitchen sink, lock, stock, and barrel, the whole/ball of wax/kit and caboodle/megillah/nine yards/shebang. See part/whole.
  3. A number or quantity obtained as a result of addition: aggregate, amount, sum, summation, sum total, total. Archaic tale. See count.
  4. An organized array of individual elements and parts forming and working as a unit: entity, integral, sum, system, whole. See part/whole.

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The noun has 3 meanings:

Meaning #1: the state of being total
  Synonyms: entirety, entireness

Meaning #2: the quality of being complete and indiscriminate

Meaning #3: the whole amount
  Synonyms: sum, total, aggregate


Translations: Totality
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Dansk (Danish)
n. - helhed, totalsum

Nederlands (Dutch)
totaliteit, totale zonsverduistering

Français (French)
n. - totalité

Deutsch (German)
n. - Gesamtheit, Totalität, totale Verfinsterung

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - ολότητα, σύνολο

Italiano (Italian)
totalitý

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

Русский (Russian)
совокупность (астр.) полное затмение

Español (Spanish)
n. - totalidad, período de eclipse total

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - totalitet, helhet

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
全体, 全食, 总数

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 全體, 全食, 總數

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 전체성, 전체, 개기식

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 全体であること, 全体性, 全体, 皆既食の時間, 総計, 完全性

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) وحدة كامله, مجموع كلي‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮שלמות, סך הכל, משך-הזמן שאורך ליקוי חמה/לבנה מלא‬


 
 

 

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