entirety

entirety

English

Alternative forms

• intirety (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English enterete, from Old French entiereté, from Latin integritās, from integer (“complete, whole”). Doublet of integrity.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈtaɪ.ə.ɹɪ.ti/, /ɛn-/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• (UK, New Zealand, General Australian) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈtaɪ.ə.ɹɪti/, /-ˈtaɪ.ə.ti/, /-ˈtʌɪɹəti/, /ɛn-/

Noun

entirety (countable and uncountable, plural entireties)

1. The whole; the complete or amount.

   Due to the early rainout, the game will be replayed in its entirety on Friday.

   • 2019 September 8, Andrew Benson, BBC Sport‎:

     This was a superb win, albeit a somewhat controversial one, a great drive in a thrilling race, in which Leclerc had to sustain the most intense pressure from one Mercedes driver or another for the entirety of the race distance.

Synonyms

• totality, whole; see also Thesaurus:entirety

Derived terms

• in its entirety
• tenancy by the entirety

 

Related terms

• entire

Translations

wholeness

Catalan: totalitat (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 全部 (zh) (quánbù), 全體／全体 (zh) (quántǐ) Esperanto: tuto Estonian: täielikkus, tervik Finnish: kokonaisuus (fi) French: entièreté (fr) f German: Gesamtheit (de) f Italian: interezza (it) f Latvian: veselums m Portuguese: totalidade (pt) f Russian: полнота́ (ru) (polnotá) Serbo-Croatian: cjelina (sh) f, cjelovitost (sh) f Spanish: enterez f, integridad (es) f, totalidad (es) f Turkish: bütünlük (tr)

Anagrams

• entierty, eternity, tenerity