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A nation is a totality of men united through community of fate into a community of character.
Otto Bauer

Meaning of "totality" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF TOTALITY

totality  [təʊˈtælɪtɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TOTALITY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Totality is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES TOTALITY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of totality in the English dictionary

The first definition of totality in the dictionary is the whole amount. Other definition of totality is the state of being total. Totality is also the state or period of an eclipse when light from the eclipsed body is totally obscured.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TOTALITY


accidentality
ˌæksɪdɛnˈtælɪtɪ
brutality
bruːˈtælɪtɪ
fatality
fəˈtælɪtɪ
fractality
frækˈtælɪtɪ
frontality
frənˈtælɪtɪ
fundamentality
ˌfʌndəmɛnˈtælɪtɪ
horizontality
ˌhɒrɪzɒnˈtælɪtɪ
hospitality
ˌhɒspɪˈtælɪtɪ
immortality
ˌɪmɔːˈtælɪtɪ
inhospitality
ˌɪnhɒspɪˈtælɪtɪ
instrumentality
ˌɪnstrəmenˈtælɪtɪ
mentality
mɛnˈtælɪtɪ
monumentality
ˌmɒnjʊˌmɛnˈtælɪtɪ
mortality
mɔːˈtælɪtɪ
natality
neɪˈtælɪtɪ
rectipetality
ˌrɛktɪpɪˈtælɪtɪ
sacramentality
ˌsækrəmɛnˈtælɪtɪ
sentimentality
ˌsɛntɪmɛnˈtælɪtɪ
transcendentality
ˌtrænsenˌdenˈtælɪtɪ
vitality
vaɪˈtælɪtɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TOTALITY

total serialization
totalisation
totalisator
totalise
totaliser
totalism
totalist
totalistic
totalitarian
totalitarianise
totalitarianism
totalitarianize
totalities
totalization
totalizator
totalize
totalizer
totalled
totalling
totally

WORDS THAT END LIKE TOTALITY

ability
air quality
augmented reality
confidentiality
equality
functionality
homosexuality
in reality
inequality
locality
low-quality
morality
municipality
nationality
originality
personality
quality
reality
sexuality
speciality
spirituality

Synonyms and antonyms of totality in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «TOTALITY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «totality» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of totality

Translation of «totality» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TOTALITY

Find out the translation of totality to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of totality from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «totality» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

总体
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

totalidad
570 millions of speakers

English

totality
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

समग्रता
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مجمل
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

совокупность
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

totalidade
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সাকল্য
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

totalité
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Keseluruhannya
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Gesamtheit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

全体
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

총체
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Totalitas
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

toàn
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

முழுமை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

संपूर्णता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

bütünlük
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

totalità
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

całość
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

сукупність
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

totalitate
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

σύνολο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

totaliteit
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

totalitet
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

totaliteten
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of totality

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TOTALITY»

The term «totality» is quite widely used and occupies the 35.674 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TOTALITY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «totality» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «totality» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about totality

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10 QUOTES WITH «TOTALITY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word totality.
1
Jacques Audiard
I really believe the form of the film must be in the scenario; cinema is not just added value to the scripting. I believe in it as a totality.
2
Roger Avary
Incarceration didn't change me. In many ways, incarceration galvanized me. The totality of the experience helped me.
3
Otto Bauer
A nation is a totality of men united through community of fate into a community of character.
4
Bill Bennett
I've got a life, you know, take me in the totality of my actions and I'll tell you, I will stand with my record.
5
William Jennings Bryan
Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed.
6
Wilhelm Dilthey
Any theory intended to describe and analyze socio-historical reality cannot restrict itself to the human spirit and disregard the totality of human nature.
7
Wilhelm Dilthey
If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the totality of experience through structural context.
8
Wilhelm Dilthey
All science is experiential; but all experience must be related back to and derives its its validity from the conditions and context of consciousness in which it arises, i.e., the totality of our nature.
9
Anne Dudek
Playing the misunderstood character has been really interesting to me. But I think after too long, that also becomes a little bit of a cliche. Or that's all you're expected to do. I didn't want that to be the totality of what my career was.
10
Rahm Emanuel
As individuals, we will be judged in our lives by the totality of our actions. Not one thing will stand out. And I think that's how we get judged by our colleagues and that's how we get judged by the good lord.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TOTALITY»

Discover the use of totality in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to totality and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Marxism and Totality: The Adventures of a Concept from ...
Totality has been an abiding concern from the first generation of Western Marxists, most notably Lukács, Korsch, Gramsci, and Bloch, through the second, exemplified by the Frankfurt School, Lefebvre, Goldmann, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, and ...
Martin Jay, 1984
2
Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority
Ever since the beginning of the modern phenomenological movement disciplined attention has been paid to various patterns of human experi ence as they are actually lived through in the concrete.
E. Levinas, 1979
3
Totality: Eclipses of the Sun
And the book shares the experiences and advice of many veteran eclipse observers. Totality: Eclipses of the Sun is profusely illustrated with stunning photographs (many in color) and more than a hundred maps and diagrams.
Mark Littmann, Fred Espenak, Ken Willcox, 2008
4
Breaking Up (at) Totality: A Rhetoric of Laughter
In this work, laughter operates as a trope for disruption or breaking up, which is, from Davis’s perspective, a joyfully destructive shattering of our confining conceptual frameworks.
Debra Diane Davis, 2000
5
Fictions of Totality: The Mexican Novel, 1968, and the ...
The Mexican government's brutal repression of the Student Movement of 1968 in the infamous Massacre of Tlatelolco exposed and exacerbated a serious crisis of political legitimacy.
Ryan Fred Long, 2008
6
Totality in Essence
The book contains nine talks delivered by the author and one Question-Answer Session conducted by her. The contents of the book revolve round the point that life is neither individual nor collective but one indivisible whole.
Vimala Thakar, 2002
7
Critique and Totality
Kerszberg (philosophy, Pennsylvania State U.) dives into the Kantian universe and finds the black holes of the philosophers cosmological principle, transcendental time, the doubled illusion, the reversals of reversal oscillating between ...
Pierre Kerszberg, 1997
8
Seeing Things Hidden: Apocalypse, Vision, and Totality
And why are things hidden in the first place? By gently teasing out the meanings of hiddenness, this book develops a new theory of apocalyptic and explores its relation to the writings of Kant, Hegel, Benjamin and Derrida.
Malcolm Bull, 1999
9
The Novel and the Menagerie: Totality, Englishness, and Empire
"The first comprehensive account of the relation of collections of imperial beasts to narrative practices in England, The Novel and the Menagerie explores an array of imaginative responses to the empire as a dominant, shaping factor in ...
Kurt Koenigsberger, 2007
10
The Totality for Kids
"Fierce intelligence, fierce understanding of social issues, and fierce sense of the power of artifice. This is major work, haunted by a sense of totality always present in the formal intricacy and in the roles cities and architecture play.
Joshua Clover, 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TOTALITY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term totality is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Totality Patchwork Pizza
Totality Patchwork Pizza. Scott and Michelle Williams from Totality Living Well joined 10News at noon to discuss how to get a high protein intake by eating pizza. «WBIR-TV, Jul 15»
2
Implement food security act in totality: Himachal to Centre
New Delhi: Himachal Pradesh Food and Civil Supplies Minister G.S. Bali on Tuesday urged the central government to implement the National Food Security Act ... «Zee News, Jul 15»
3
Leaning tower: Gov. Tom Wolf's severance tax must be seen in its …
Staff photo blog. Advertisement. Leaning tower: Gov. Tom Wolf's severance tax must be seen in its totality. June 7, 2015 12:00 AM. Share with others: 0 inShare. «Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Jun 15»
4
Totality Living Well Strawberry Chicken Tacos
Totality Living Well Strawberry Chicken Tacos. Scott and Michelle Williams create a taco using summertime basics in an unconventional way – Strawberry ... «WBIR-TV, May 15»
5
We're All In This Together: Lunar Totality
Head down to Alice Springs, Australia and their separation increases to 1.5° at totality. That might be too expansive to call a close pair, but the galaxy should be ... «Sky & Telescope, Apr 15»
6
Terrorism to be eliminated totality in Pakistan: Gen Sharif
RAWALPINDI – “We are taking menace of terrorism head on and will go anywhere in Pakistan to eliminate it in totality,” said Chief of Army Staff General Raheel ... «Daily Times, Mar 15»
7
Faroe Islands eclipse-watch has raw drama but elusive totality
The precious seconds of totality – when the Sun's disc is completely covered and it's possible to look directly at the grey-white corona of our star – was, sadly, ... «BT.com, Mar 15»
8
Solar eclipse: easyJet plane detours over Faroe Islands, one of just …
Solar eclipse: easyJet plane detours over Faroe Islands, one of just two places with totality. The pilot circled over the ocean enroute to Iceland, giving ... «The Independent, Mar 15»
9
Solar eclipse tip: Journey to Path of Totality, or go online
A partial solar eclipse is seen in a break in the clouds from Wichita, Kan., on Oct. 23, 2014. Early Friday morning, a total solar eclipse will be visible from a narrow ... «SFGate, Mar 15»
10
Totality Spring Chili
Sprinkle salt and pepper over chicken and bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes. Remove from oven and chop. Combine broth, beans, onion, garlic, cilantro, ... «WBIR-TV, Mar 15»

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