Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The state of being entire or complete; wholeness.
  • noun The entire amount or extent; the whole.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state of being entire or whole; wholeness; completeness: as, entirety of interest.
  • noun That which is entire; an undivided whole.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The state of being entire; completeness.
  • noun That which is entire; the whole.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun wholeness; fullness; the whole.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the state of being total and complete

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Examples

  • 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

    Ecumenism 2009

  • 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” 2009

  • NETWORK NOTE: The purpose of posting not only the the below email, but the original stories in their entirety, is EDUCATION.

    The Right Stuff 2010

  • 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

    Scripture 2009

  • It would be a huge setback to the American human spaceflight and exploration program in Constellation in its entirety is canceled. crix

    NASA Awards Spacesuit Contract - Again - NASA Watch 2009

  • Thing is, tenancy by entirety is apparently a statutory construction and will differ state to state.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Is a Shoebox Like a Suitcase? 2010

  • 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.

    Boing Boing 2009

  • 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.

    Boing Boing 2009

  • 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.

    The Rise Of The Corporate Transmedia Storyteller Steve Rubel 2010

  • NETWORK NOTE: The purpose of posting not only the the below email, but the original stories in their entirety, is EDUCATION.

    Heroes or Villains? 2010

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  • I am myself, in my entirety.

    August 16, 2012