say it: toh-TAL-uh-tee
totality is a noun meaning "the state of being total and complete". It carries 3 recorded senses.
the state of being total and complete
“he read the article in its entirety”
“appalled by the totality of the destruction”
the quality of being complete and indiscriminate
“the totality of war and its consequences”
“the all-embracing totality of the state”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for totality come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.