"totality" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /toʊˈtælɪti/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-totality.wav Forms: totalities [plural]
Rhymes: -ælɪti Etymology: From total + -ity. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|total|ity}} total + -ity Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} totality (countable and uncountable, plural totalities)
  1. The state of being total. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (state of being total): цялостност (cjalostnost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), съвкупност (sǎvkupnost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), totalitat [feminine] (Catalan), tutaĵo (Esperanto), kokonaisuus (Finnish), totalité [feminine] (French), totalidade [feminine] (Galician), Gesamtheit [feminine] (German), севкупност (sevkupnost) [feminine] (Macedonian), потполност (potpolnost) [feminine] (Macedonian), целокупност (celokupnost) [feminine] (Macedonian), totalitate [feminine] (Romanian), совоку́пность (sovokúpnostʹ) (Russian), целоку́пность (celokúpnostʹ) (english: philosophical) (Russian), totalidad [feminine] (Spanish), helhet [common-gender] (Swedish)
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  2. An aggregate quantity obtained by addition. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (aggregate quantity): yhteismäärä (Finnish), summa [mathematics, sciences] (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-totality-en-noun-Sh19GKrP Disambiguation of 'aggregate quantity': 1 96 2
  3. (astronomy) The phase of an eclipse when it is total. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Astronomy Translations (astronomy: phase of an eclipse): täydellisyys (Finnish), Totalität [feminine] (German), lándorchadas [masculine] (Irish)
    Sense id: en-totality-en-noun-I4B1BVmm Topics: astronomy, natural-sciences Disambiguation of 'astronomy: phase of an eclipse': 2 8 91
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: entirety [state], totalness, entirety Derived forms: in its totality, in totality, path of totality, totality of the circumstances

Inflected forms

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    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "state of being total",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "totalidad"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "state of being total",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "helhet"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "aggregate quantity",
      "word": "yhteismäärä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "aggregate quantity",
      "topics": [
        "mathematics",
        "sciences"
      ],
      "word": "summa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "astronomy: phase of an eclipse",
      "word": "täydellisyys"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "astronomy: phase of an eclipse",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Totalität"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "astronomy: phase of an eclipse",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "lándorchadas"
    }
  ],
  "word": "totality"
}

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