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ENTIRENESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does entireness mean?
• ENTIRENESS (noun)
The noun ENTIRENESS has 1 sense:
1. the state of being total and complete
Familiarity information: ENTIRENESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The state of being total and complete
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
entireness; entirety; integrality; totality
Context example:
appalled by the totality of the destruction
Hypernyms ("entireness" is a kind of...):
completeness (the state of being complete and entire; having everything that is needed)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "entireness"):
full treatment; kit and boodle; kit and caboodle; whole caboodle; whole kit; whole kit and boodle; whole kit and caboodle; whole shebang; whole works; works (everything available; usually preceded by 'the')
Derivation:
entire (constituting the full quantity or extent; complete)
entire (constituting the undiminished entirety; lacking nothing essential especially not damaged)
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