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totality1590s, from total (adj.) + -ity, or from or based on Middle French totalité, Medieval Latin totalitas. In the eclipse sense, "time of total obscuration," from 1842.
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totalityperiod during an eclipse when light from the eclipsed body is completely blocked.
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totalityThe period during a solar eclipse when the Sun is completely blocked by the Moon.
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totalityTotality refers to an approach to thinking that locates phenomena in wider social structural and historical context.
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totality(n) the state of being total and complete(n) the quality of being complete and indiscriminate(n) the whole amount
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totalityThe period of time in an eclipse when the Sun or Moon is completely covered by the body passing in front of it (Lesson 29)
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totality
The state of being total.
An aggregate quantity obtained by addition.
(astronomy) The phase of an eclipse when it is total.
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