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How to use totality in a sentence

23 example sentences · noun

Totality means the state of being total. Example: “The voluntariness of a confession is based on a totality of the circumstances test.”

Examples of totality by meaning

nounThe state of being total.

  • 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.2019 January 14, “Exploring the SCP Foundation: SCP-2935 - O, Death” (0:36 from the start), in The Exploring Series, archived from the...

nounAn aggregate quantity obtained by addition.

  • the totality of your offspring

More sentences with totality

  • The voluntariness of a confession is based on a totality of the circumstances test.From the entry totality of the circumstances
  • Only Punday’s emphasis on re-integration and a new totality could somehow be called postdeconstructive.2019, Luc Herman, Bart Vervaeck, Handbook of Narrative Analysis, →ISBN, page 367, n. 690. From the entry postdeconstructive
  • John wrote to the 'seven' Churches, meaning that he was addressing the totality of the one Church.2010, The City of God, Books XVII–XXII (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 24). From the entry foretype
  • The totality of the preseed culture is added into the final culture composed of the same medium.2007, Sylvie Doublié, Macromolecular Crystallography Protocols, page 31. From the entry preseed
  • Rand refused to detach even a seemingly radical rebellion from the social totality in which it emerged.1995, Chris Matthew Sciabarra, Ayn Rand: The Russian Radical, Penn State Press, →ISBN, page 328. From the entry antirational
  • Keep the filter on the camera for all the exposures unless you’re in the path of totality.1994, Joel Harris, Richard Talcott, Chasing the Shadow, Kalmbach Books, →ISBN, page 79. From the entry path of totality
  • Over a wider region either side of the path of totality, a partial eclipse is seen.1993, Jacqueline Mitton, The Penguin Dictionary of Astronomy, 2nd edition (paperback), Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 127. From the entry wide
  • In classical mathematics the continuum is conceived of as the totality of its points.1970, Per Martín-Löf, Notes on constructive mathematics, page 57. From the entry constructivize
  • Reality is different from, and more than, the totality of facts and events, which, anyhow, is unascertainable.1967 February 25, Hannah Arendt, “Truth and Politics”, in The New Yorker, page 84. From the entry unascertainable
  • Metanoia is the knowledge that there can be totalities in this world totally different from what we thought.2017, Armen Avanessian, Anke Hennig, Metanoia: A Speculative Ontology of Language, Thinking, and the Brain, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 162. From the entry metanoia
  • It is now possible to define whole epigenomes, representing the totality of epigenetic marks in a given cell type.2008 August 7, The American Association for Cancer Research Human Epigenome Task Force; European Union, Network of Excellence, Scientific…. From the entry epigenetic
  • Terrestrialism locates man in a cosmic totality, presenting a unified sensibility, where his earth-boundedness is indispensable from the entire cosmic phenomenon.1994, Homi K. Bhabha, The Location of Culture. From the entry terrestrialism
  • A totality of patronymies made up a Patriarchal Clan.1986, James George Frazer, Marriage and Worship in Early Societies - Volume 2, page xx. From the entry patronymy
  • In its totality, the throneroom represents a complex play between convention and innovation in the sequence of ancient Mesopotamian art up to that point.2010, Irene Winter, On Art in the Ancient Near East, page 8. From the entry throneroom
  • This, however, is only part of the story—just as fanzines and fan activity (Fanac) are only a part of the totality which is fandom.1956 September, Robert Bloch, “Some of Best Fans are Friends”, in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, volume 11, number 3, page 57. From the entry fanac
  • As the irreversible law behind the linearity of narrative time, Historical Necessity is therefore figurable only, not plottable, and figurable by the very form of novelistic totality.2015, Susan J. Wolfson, Marshall Brown, Reading for Form, page 278. From the entry figurable
  • The observatives on which the totality of our empirical knowledge rests are themselves the result of the transformation of perceptual habits through initiation into the discursive community.2015, Carl B Sachs, Intentionality and the Myths of the Given, page 146. From the entry observative
  • Considered purely logically, the totality of compossibilities of a particular property—the totality of possible coinstantiations with other properties—may be called the logical form of that property.2008, Eike-Henner W. Kluge, “Scotus On Accidental And Essential Causes”, in Franciscan Studies, volumes 66, John Duns Scotus Doctor…. From the entry compossible
  • The path of totality can extend for many thousands of miles, and the duration of totality in any one place can be as long as about seven minutes.1999, Peter Coles, Einstein and the Total Eclipse, Totem Books, →ISBN, page 11. From the entry path of totality
  • Their claim to totality is like the cry of the archon Ialdabaoth that he was the Lord of the Universe and that there was nothing beyond him.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London…. From the entry archon
  • One might therefore, like Markov and his school, try to constructivize the theory of the continuum by looking upon it as the totality of its constructive points.1970, Per Martín-Löf, Notes on constructive mathematics, page 57. From the entry constructivize

Meaning of totality

  1. noun The state of being total.
  2. noun An aggregate quantity obtained by addition.
  3. noun The phase of an eclipse when it is total.

Full definition of totality

Questions about totality in a sentence

How do you use totality in a sentence?
Totality is used as a noun. For example: “The voluntariness of a confession is based on a totality of the circumstances test.”
What is a short sentence with totality?
“the totality of your offspring”
What does totality mean?
Totality means the state of being total.

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