Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The state of being entire or complete; wholeness: To appreciate the poem, one must read it in its entirety.
- n. The entire amount or extent; the whole: "We rarely remember the entirety of the plot” ( Anthony Burgess).
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The state of being entire or whole; wholeness; completeness: as, entirety of interest.
- n. That which is entire; an undivided whole.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The state of being entire; completeness.
- n. That which is entire; the whole.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the state of being total and complete
Examples
“But when I watched the MTV episodes in entirety with the BBV crew, I started to feel like I knew these people, and was more comfortable with it the more I watched.”
“In his interpretation of the bill (which I haven't read in entirety, full disclosure), Declan says the bill gives the White House new power to unplug private-sector computers from the Internet in the case of national emergency.”
“According to Google CEO Eric Schmidt, by the end of today the Web will fill up with more information than what had existed in entirety prior to 2003.”
“Thing is, tenancy by entirety is apparently a statutory construction and will differ state to state.”
“NETWORK NOTE: The purpose of posting not only the the below email, but the original stories in their entirety, is EDUCATION.”
“It would be a huge setback to the American human spaceflight and exploration program in Constellation in its entirety is canceled. crix”
“Even after returning to his Roman Catholic roots, Beckwith contends he could sign the ETS doctrinal basis, which reads: The Bible alone, and the Bible in its entirety, is the Word of”
“To the extent reading the bill in its entirety is a useful exercise, they all have paid staff and interns who could split the thing up ...”
Matthew Yglesias » Stan Collender: Critics of Stimulus Bill’s Length are “Ridiculous”
“The latter bears repeating in entirety (as quoted in Coin World):”
“The Democrats have plenty of cash, the mainstream media in entirety, and almost all print media to sell & explain their message and still can't get it done.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘entirety’.
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
(Persons' names, foreign and grammatical words have been eliminated, MWEs have been split up into individual words. Capitalization has been retained if r...health, follow, condition, meeting, minister, beginning, chapter, information, language, remain, covered, respect and 2614 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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Misc. Words.
Words I like to use, words I like but may forget.
corrosion, astonish, solace, ferment, continuum, kinesthetic, permeate, repose, caprice, cardinal, discourse, surrender and 610 more...
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Words That Populate My Mind
This is a collection of words I love, old ones that I love the sound of when I repeat them for years and new ones coined in news articles on up and coming trends and technologies - most of them I k...
aroma, mojo, blithely, fringe, fray, synchronicity, doublespeak, buzzword, thoughtcrime, portmanteau, newspeak, oldspeak and 963 more...
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vivek's list
flibbertigibbet, droll, reticence, prelude, erinaceous, brinkmanship, depone, inaniloquent, limerance, pronk, onomatopoeia, oxymoron and 385 more...
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Eloquence
thwart, emulate, shun, bold, brazen, disgruntled, aberration, conclusively, destitute, indefensible, astute, discernment and 52 more...
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Words not suitable in academic public...
canvas, embroiled, spectre, haunted, intricate, entirety, interplay, precarious, in silico, nuisance
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Pippiline's Words
picaroon, shenanigans, chrestomathy, bumpkin, dither, riotous, broadmindedness, enlightenment, entirety, exasperated
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Favorite
This is a list of my favorites in the English language.
Tweets
Looking for tweets for entirety.
erinhoney I am myself, in my entirety. Aug 16, 2012