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totality

US/toʊˈtælɪti/

totality noun: the state of being total.

totality: the state of being total
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Noun

totality (countable and uncountable, plural totalities)

  1. The 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 original on 25 Mar 2023
  2. An aggregate quantity obtained by addition.
    • the totality of your offspring
  3. The phase of an eclipse when it is total.

totality meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

totality in Hindi

state of being total
समग्रता samagratā, पूर्णता pūrṇatā

totality in Tamil

பகுபடா நிலை, முழுமை

totality in Urdu

کلیت

totality in Bengali

সামগ্রিকতা, পূর্ণতা, সমগ্র অংশ
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totality in Malayalam
സാകല്യാവസ്ഥ, സമഗ്രത, സമ്പൂർണ്ണത, സാകല്യം
totality in Gujarati
સમગ્રતા
totality in Odia
ସାମଗ୍ରିକତା
totality in Sanskrit
सामग्री sāmagrī, समुच्चय samuccaya
totality in Nepali
सम्पूर्णता

Examples of totality in a sentence

  • The voluntariness of a confession is based on a totality of the circumstances test.
  • Only Punday’s emphasis on re-integration and a new totality could somehow be called postdeconstructive.
  • John wrote to the 'seven' Churches, meaning that he was addressing the totality of the one Church.

All 23 example sentences with totality

Synonyms of totality

Forms of totality

pluraltotalities

Origin of totality

From total + -ity.

Words formed from totality

Phrases with totality

Words that rhyme with totality

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Questions about totality

What does totality mean?
Totality means the state of being total.
What is totality in Hindi?
Totality in Hindi is समग्रता (samagratā), पूर्णता (pūrṇatā). See Totality meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is totality?
Totality is a noun.
How do you pronounce totality?
Totality is pronounced /toʊˈtælɪti/ (US).
What is the plural of totality?
The plural of totality is totalities.

Words near totality in the dictionary

  1. totalitarianized
  2. totalitarianizes
  3. totalitarianizing
  4. totalitarians
  5. totalities
  6. totality
  7. totality of the circumstances
  8. totalization
  9. totalizations
  10. totalizator
  11. totalizators

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: totality (page history and authors); totality (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); totality (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); totality (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); totality (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); totality (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); totality (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); समुच्चय (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); totality (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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