TOTALITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does totality mean? 

• TOTALITY (noun)
  The noun TOTALITY has 3 senses:

1. the state of being total and complete

2. the quality of being complete and indiscriminate

3. the whole amount

  Familiarity information: TOTALITY used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TOTALITY (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 ("totality" 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 "totality"):

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')

Sense 2

Meaning:

The quality of being complete and indiscriminate

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Context example:

the all-embracing totality of the state

Hypernyms ("totality" is a kind of...):

generality (the quality of being general or widespread or having general applicability)

Derivation:

total (constituting the full quantity or extent; complete)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The whole amount

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

aggregate; sum; total; totality

Hypernyms ("totality" is a kind of...):

unit; whole (an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity)

 Context examples 

Terminology associated with the portion totality codelist of the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) Standard Data Tabulation Model (SDTM).

(CDISC SDTM Portion/Totality Terminology, NCI Thesaurus)

Qualifier for anatomical location or specimen further detailing the portion or totality, which means arrangement of, or apportioning of an entity.

(CDISC SDTM Portion/Totality Terminology, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

The totality of surrounding conditions.

(Environment, NCI Thesaurus)