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  2  definitions  found 
 
  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  1.6  [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  [syn:  {sum},  {total},  {aggregate}] 




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