[ad. Schol.L. tōtālitās (a. 1141 in Hugo de S. Victor, also in Albertus Magnus, Aquinas, Duns Scotus), f. tōtālis TOTAL: cf. F. totalité (14th c. in Hatz.-Darm.).]

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  1.  The quality of being total; entirety.

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1627.  Donne, Serm., xliv. (1640), 443. 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.

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1684.  Baxter, Answ. Theol. Dial., 4. We will not be cheated by it to believe that it causeth any more than Totality or Integrality.

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c. 1819.  Coleridge, in Rem. (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.

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1869.  Ingleby, Introd. Metaph., II. ii. 171. I remark, obiter, that Totality is plurality in unity.

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  b.  Astron. Total obscuration of the sun or moon in an eclipse; the moment of occurrence or time of duration of this.

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1842.  C. B. Airy, in Mem. R. Astron. Soc. (1846), XV. 12. About six minutes before the totality. Ibid., Plate ii. Fig. 1. Appearance of the sun a short time before totality.

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1860.  F. Galton, in Vac. Tour., 439. About twenty-five minutes before totality they gave place to our wishes.

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1871.  Tyndall, Fragm. Sc. (1879), I. vi. 208. The appearance of the corona and prominences at the moment of totality.

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  2.  That which is total; a whole; the total number or amount, the aggregate.

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1598.  Florio, Totalita, a totalitie or whole sum.

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1602.  Warner, Alb. Eng., XIII. lxxix. (1612), 327. Whence, and to which Totalitie begins and ends alone.

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1654.  Jer. Taylor, Real Pres., xi. 224. There is a new heap of impossibilities, if we should reckon that which flowes from the multiplication of totalities.

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1660.  R. Coke, Justice Vind., 35. The will of the major part cannot be the will of the totality, but plurality.

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1789.  Gouv. Morris, in Sparks, Life & Writ. (1832), I. 336. The totality of the public debt here is about 4,700,000,000 livres.

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1864.  Bowen, Logic, iv. (1870), 76. ‘The universe’ … means only the totality of that class of objects which we are thinking of.

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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.

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