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totality

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    From total + -ity.

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    totality (countable and uncountable, plural totalities)

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    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[1], 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.
      the totality of your offspring
    3. (astronomy) The phase of an eclipse when it is total.

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