totality

English

Etymology

From total +‎ -ity.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /toʊˈtælɪti/
• Rhymes: -ælɪti

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Noun

totality (countable and uncountable, plural totalities)

View of the sun during a total solar eclipse

1. The state of being total.
   • 2019 January 14, “Exploring the SCP Foundation: SCP-2935 - O, Death” (0:36 from the start), in The Exploring Series‎^[1], archived from the original on 25 March 2023:

     There are a number of SCPs and tales that look at potential apocalypses, but rarely with such totality as SCP-2935, a parallel dimension in which death prevailed.

2. An aggregate quantity obtained by addition.
3. (astronomy) The phase of an eclipse when it is total.

Synonyms

• (state of being total): entirety, totalness; see also Thesaurus:entirety

Derived terms

• in its totality
• in totality
• path of totality
• totality of the circumstances

 

Translations

state of being total

• Bulgarian: цялостност (bg) f (cjalostnost), съвкупност (bg) f (sǎvkupnost)
• Catalan: totalitat (ca) f
• Chinese:

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• Esperanto: tutaĵo
• Finnish: kokonaisuus (fi)
• French: totalité (fr) f
• Galician: totalidade (gl) f
• German: Gesamtheit (de) f
• Macedonian: севкупност f (sevkupnost), потполност f (potpolnost), целокупност f (celokupnost)
• Romanian: totalitate (ro) f
• Russian: совоку́пность (ru) (sovokúpnostʹ), целоку́пность (ru) (celokúpnostʹ) (philosophical)
• Spanish: totalidad (es) f
• Swedish: helhet (sv) c

aggregate quantity

• Finnish: yhteismäärä; summa (fi) (mathematics)

astronomy: phase of an eclipse

• Finnish: täydellisyys (fi)
• German: Totalität (de) f
• Irish: lándorchadas m

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