"entirety" meaning in English

See entirety in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ɪnˈtaɪ.ə.ɹɪ.ti/ [US], /ɛn-/ [US], /ɪnˈtaɪ.ə.ɹɪti/ [General-Australian, New-Zealand, UK], /-ˈtaɪ.ə.ti/ [General-Australian, New-Zealand, UK], /-ˈtʌɪɹəti/ [General-Australian, New-Zealand, UK], /ɛn-/ [General-Australian, New-Zealand, UK] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-entirety.wav [Southern-England] Forms: entireties [plural]
Etymology: From Middle English enterete, from Old French entiereté, from Latin integritās, from integer (“complete, whole”). Doublet of integrity. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|enterete}} Middle English enterete, {{der|en|fro|entiereté}} Old French entiereté, {{der|en|la|integritās}} Latin integritās, {{m|la|integer||complete, whole}} integer (“complete, whole”), {{doublet|en|integrity}} Doublet of integrity Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} entirety (countable and uncountable, plural entireties)
  1. The whole; the complete or amount. Tags: countable, uncountable Synonyms: totality, whole, intirety [archaic], entireness, entirety, fullness, pleroma, totalness, wholeness Hyponyms: intactness Derived forms: in its entirety, tenancy by the entirety Related terms: entire, oneness, unity, completeness, completion, completely, total Translations (wholeness): geheel (Afrikaans), totalitat [feminine] (Catalan), 全部 (quánbù) (Chinese Mandarin), 全體 (Chinese Mandarin), 全体 (quántǐ) (Chinese Mandarin), tuto (Esperanto), täielikkus (Estonian), tervik (Estonian), kokonaisuus (Finnish), entièreté [feminine] (French), Gesamtheit [feminine] (German), interezza [feminine] (Italian), veselums [masculine] (Latvian), całość [feminine] (Polish), totalidade [feminine] (Portuguese), полнота́ (polnotá) (Russian), cjelina [feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), cjelovitost [feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), enterez [feminine] (Spanish), integridad [feminine] (Spanish), totalidad [feminine] (Spanish), bütünlük (Turkish)

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      "word": "bütünlük"
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  ],
  "word": "entirety"
}

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