entirety

1. 1.

   the state of being total and complete

   “he read the article in its entirety”

   “appalled by the totality of the destruction”

   Synonymsentirenessintegralitytotality

   Broadercompleteness

   Narrowerwhole shebang

Other forms of entirety

plural

entireties·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about entirety

What does entirety mean?

entirety means "the state of being total and complete".

How many syllables are in entirety?

entirety has 4 syllables: en-ti-re-ty. The stress falls on "ti". In IPA it is /ɪnˈtaɪɚti/.

What is another word for entirety?

Close synonyms include entireness, integrality, totality. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is entirety a common word?

entirety is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.