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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 completeplay

  Familiarity information: ENTIRENESS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ENTIRENESS (noun)


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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