单词 | totality |
释义 | totalityn. 1. a. The quality of being total; entirety. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > the whole or all > [noun] everydeala1300 universityc1384 universal?c1400 the whole ofc1450 alpha and omega1526 entire1597 be-alla1616 all1619 totalitya1631 all-hood1722 entirety1856 totalnessc1864 a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1956) VIII. 60 God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost, whom this day we celebrate, in the Ingenuity, and in the Assiduity, and in the Totality, recommended in this text. 1684 R. Baxter Short Answer in Whether Parish Congregations be True Christian Churches ii. 4 We will not be cheated by it to believe that it causeth any more than Totality or Integrality. a1834 S. T. Coleridge Lit. Remains (1836) II. 149 Instead of unity of action, I should greatly prefer the more appropriate, though scholastic and uncouth, words homogeneity, proportionateness, and totality of interest. 1869 C. M. Ingleby Introd. Metaph. ii. ii. 171 I remark, obiter, that Totality is plurality in unity. b. Astronomy. Total obscuration of the sun or moon in an eclipse; the moment of occurrence or time of duration of this. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > heavenly body > [noun] > state of being visible > eclipse > total totality1842 1842 G. B. Airy in Mem. Royal Astron. Soc. (1846) XV. 12 About six minutes before the totality. 1842 G. B. Airy in Mem. Royal Astron. Soc. (1846) Pl. ii. Fig. 1 Appearance of the sun a short time before totality. 1861 F. Galton Vacation Tourists & Trav. 1860 439 About twenty-five minutes before totality they gave place to our wishes. 1871 J. Tyndall Fragm. Sci. (1879) I. vi. 208 The appearance of the corona and prominences at the moment of totality. 2. That which is total; a whole; the total number or amount, the aggregate. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > the whole or all > [noun] > the whole quantity, number, or amount fullOE suma1382 universitya1382 your university1385 wholea1393 amountment?a1400 wholenessa1425 hale1437 aggregatec1443 rate1472 total1557 the whole ware1563 lump1576 gross1579 totality1598 universarya1604 general1608 population1612 amount1615 totum1656 totea1772 complete1790 factorial1869 collectivity1882 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Totalita, a totalitie or whole sum. 1602 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) xiii. lxxix. 327 Whence, and to which Totalitie begins and ends alone. 1654 Bp. J. Taylor Real Presence xi. 224 There is a new heap of impossibilities, if we should reckon that which flowes from the multiplication of totalities. 1660 R. Coke Justice Vindicated ii. 35 The will of the major part cannot be the will of the totality, but plurality. 1789 G. Morris in J. Sparks Life G. Morris (1832) I. 336 The totality of the public debt here is about 4,700,000,000 livres. 1864 F. C. Bowen Logic (1870) iv. 76 ‘The universe’..means only the totality of that class of objects which we are thinking of. 1884 H. Spencer in Contemp. Rev. XLVI. 33 The totality of all powers and rights originally existed as an undivided whole in the sovereign people. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.1598 |
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