Synonyms for totality


Grammar : Noun
Spell : toh-tal-i-tee
Phonetic Transcription : toʊˈtæl ɪ ti


Définition of totality

Origin :
  • 1590s, from total (adj.) + -ity. In the eclipse sense, from 1842.
  • noun entirety
Example sentences :
  • As it happened, that very instant was the conclusion of totality.
  • Extract from : « The Story of Eclipses » by George Chambers
  • The totality of a life at any moment is the product mainly of little things.
  • Extract from : « How to Succeed » by Orison Swett Marden
  • There was a lull in the wind before and after totality, but during the totality the wind was strong.
  • Extract from : « Fragments of science, V. 1-2 » by John Tyndall
  • They first appear on the eastern limb at the commencement of totality.
  • Extract from : « The Story of the Heavens » by Robert Stawell Ball
  • But it is no longer then of the universe in its totality that we must speak.
  • Extract from : « Creative Evolution » by Henri Bergson
  • There can be no degrees of totality; and some timbers were saved.
  • Extract from : « A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II) » by Augustus De Morgan
  • It accepts the conception of continuity, and rejects the conception of totality.
  • Extract from : « The Complex Vision » by John Cowper Powys
  • To know really what it is, one must take the aggregate in its totality.
  • Extract from : « Introduction to the Science of Sociology » by Robert E. Park
  • That type of knowledge is the knowledge that comprehends the universe in its totality.
  • Extract from : « The Approach to Philosophy » by Ralph Barton Perry
  • What, indeed, were Mark Twain's works in the totality of that relationship?
  • Extract from : « The Ordeal of Mark Twain » by Van Wyck Brooks

Antonyms for totality

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