Hypertext Webster Gateway: "entireness"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Entireness \En*tire"ness\, n.
1. The state or condition of being entire; completeness;
fullness; totality; as, the entireness of an arch or a
bridge.
This same entireness or completeness. --Trench.
2. Integrity; wholeness of heart; honesty. [R.]
Entireness in preaching the gospel. --Udall.
3. Oneness; unity; -- applied to a condition of intimacy or
close association. [Obs.]
True Christian love may be separated from
acquaintance, and acquaintance from entireness.
--Bp. Hall.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
entireness
n : the state of being total: "appalled by the totality of the
destruction" [syn: {entirety}, {totality}]
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