as in total
a complete amount of something
the totality of the stars in the universe can only be loosely guessed at
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Recent Examples of totality
Yes, the Knicks finished the regular season with a top-five offense in totality, but the group was middle of the pack in the second half of the season and often looked bogged down against the better defenses in the playoffs.
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James L. Edwards Iii, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2025
In every location along the path of the 2026 eclipse, partial totality will last about two hours, and full totality will last two minutes.
—Cassandra Brooklyn, AFAR Media, 21 Aug. 2025
Pynchon’s Orphic characters are often detectives who are tuned to the right the spiritual right frequency, discovering clues and linkages of the system without ever beholding the entire totality.
—Literary Hub, 5 Aug. 2025
With only three episodes to go, fans will soon be able to evaluate Resident Alien in totality for themselves.
—Ryan Coleman Published, EW.com, 25 July 2025
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James L. Edwards Iii, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2025
In every location along the path of the 2026 eclipse, partial totality will last about two hours, and full totality will last two minutes.
—Cassandra Brooklyn, AFAR Media, 21 Aug. 2025
Pynchon’s Orphic characters are often detectives who are tuned to the right the spiritual right frequency, discovering clues and linkages of the system without ever beholding the entire totality.
—Literary Hub, 5 Aug. 2025
With only three episodes to go, fans will soon be able to evaluate Resident Alien in totality for themselves.
—Ryan Coleman Published, EW.com, 25 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for totality
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New Mexico’s defense has given up an average of 419 yards per game in 2025, a total of 95 yards more than the 324 UCLA’s offense has averaged.—
Data Skrive,
New York Times,
8 Sep. 2025
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The Cultural, Artistic and Musical Programming Advisory Council received a total of 48 applications from qualified groups for the 2026 budget cycle, according to the three-year awards report.—
Claudia Levens,
jsonline.com,
8 Sep. 2025
Noun
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That value is ironically and necessarily bound up with independence from government control, even as its realization depends on receiving enormous sums of government money.—
Jeannie Suk Gersen,
New Yorker,
6 Sep. 2025
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Mark Zuckerberg has invested large sums of money into Meta.—
John Tufts,
IndyStar,
6 Sep. 2025
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The book functions as a set of nesting dolls, offering stories embedded in stories, a series of overlapping detours and evasions that ultimately coalesce as a vivid and coherent whole.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
4 Sep. 2025
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Germain McMicking—Neon Advertisement Together is a squishy-gross body-horror comedy about the ways longtime couples sometimes meld sensibilities so completely that one partner or the other may feel subsumed by the whole.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
4 Sep. 2025
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“Totality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/totality. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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