totality Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the state of being total and complete
    entirety; integrality; entireness.
    • he read the article in its entirety
    • appalled by the totality of the destruction
  2. noun the quality of being complete and indiscriminate
    • the totality of war and its consequences
    • the all-embracing totality of the state
  3. noun the whole amount
    aggregate; sum; total.

WordNet

To*tal"i*ty noun
Etymology
Cf. F. totalite, LL. totalitas.
Definitions
  1. The quality or state of being total; as, the totality of an eclipse.
  2. The whole sum; the whole quantity or amount; the entirety; as, the totalityof human knowledge. Buckle.
    The totality of a sentence or passage. Coleridge.

Webster 1913