entirety

en·tire·ty

Use entirety in a sentence

The bottle of water has been drank in its entirety.

The bottle of water has been drank in its entirety.

noun

Entirety is defined as the whole thing, or the state of being complete.

An example of entirety is the director's cut of a movie without any scenes deleted; the entirety of the movie.

entirety

noun

pl. -·ties

the state or fact of being entire; wholeness; completeness
an entire thing; whole; total
Law undivided or sole possession

Origin of entirety

Middle English enterete from Old French entiereté

entirety Idioms

in its entirety

as a whole; completely

entirety

noun

pl. en·tire·ties

The state of being entire or complete; wholeness: To appreciate the poem, one must read it in its entirety.
The entire amount or extent; the whole: “We rarely remember the entirety of the plot” ( Anthony Burgess )

entirety

Noun

(countable and uncountable, plural entireties)

wholeness; fullness; the whole.

Anagrams

eternity

entirety - Legal Definition

n

The whole of a thing; something incapable of being divided.

SentencesSentence examples

Sentence Examples

It wasn't anywhere he'd tracked her during the entirety of her lifetime.
In applying to the total population of 1790 the rate of growth shown since 1790 by the white people of the South, this rate, for the purpose of the above compirtations, is taken in its entirety only up to 1870, and thereafterin view of the notorious lesser birth-rate since that year in the North and Westonly one half of the rate is used.
He didn't understand both their concern and eagerness to get rid of him, but felt familiar coldness settle into his chest. There had been two other people in the entirety of the universe that cared for him, and the two people with him now were not the same.
If, however, application be made of the rate in its entirety from 1790 to 1900, the result would be a theoretical pure native stock in 1900 equal to the then actually existing native and foreign stock combined.
At the close of the monarchy, the plebeian possessed the private rights of citizenship in entirety, except for his inability to contract a legal marriage with a patrician, and one of the public rights, that of giving his vote in the assembly.'

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