Hypertext Webster Gateway: "totality"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
totality
n 1: the state of being total: "appalled by the totality of the
destruction" [syn: {entirety}, {entireness}]
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}, {aggregate}]
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