totality

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Etymology

From total + -ity.

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  • (General American) IPA(key): /toʊˈtælɪti/
  • Rhymes: -ælɪti
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Noun

totality (countable and uncountable, plural totalities)

View of the sun during a total solar eclipse
  1. The state of being total.
    • 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 March 2023:
      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.
  2. An aggregate quantity obtained by addition.
  3. (astronomy) The phase of an eclipse when it is total.

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