Totality \To*tal"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. totalite, LL. totalitas.]
   1. The quality or state of being total; as, the totality of
      an eclipse.
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   2. The whole sum; the whole quantity or amount; the entirety;
      as, the totality of human knowledge. --Buckle.
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            The totality of a sentence or passage. --Coleridge.
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	totality
    n 1: the state of being total and complete; "he read the article
         in its entirety"; "appalled by the totality of the
         destruction" [syn: entirety, entireness, integrality,
         totality]
    2: the quality of being complete and indiscriminate; "the
       totality of war and its consequences"; "the all-embracing
       totality of the state"
    3: the whole amount [syn: sum, total, totality,
       aggregate]

	

	75 Moby Thesaurus words for "totality":
   Copernican universe, Einsteinian universe, Newtonian universe,
   Ptolemaic universe, aggregate, all, all being, all creation,
   all hands, all the world, allness, alpha and omega,
   be-all and end-all, beginning and end, collectivity, completeness,
   complex, comprehensiveness, cosmos, created nature,
   created universe, creation, embodiment, entireness, entirety,
   every man Jack, everybody, everyone, everything that is,
   exhaustiveness, expanding universe, form, fullness, holism,
   inclusiveness, intactness, integer, integrality, integration,
   integrity, macrocosm, macrocosmos, megacosm, metagalaxy, nature,
   omneity, omnipresence, one and all, oneness, organic unity,
   pervasiveness, plenum, pulsating universe, sidereal universe,
   solidarity, solidity, steady-state universe, sum of things,
   sum total, system, thoroughness, total, total approach,
   totality of being, tout le monde, ubiquity, unity, universality,
   universe, whole, whole wide world, wholeness, wide world, world,
   world without end

	

	TOTALITY. The whole sum or quantity. 
     2. In making a tender, it is requisite that the totality of the sum due 
should be offered, together with the interest and costs. Vide Tender.