Totality may refer to:
- The coverage of the sun during a solar eclipse.
- Totality Corporation, a former professional services provider acquired by Verizon
- The period during which an eclipse is total
- A philosophical concept; see Absolute (philosophy)
- The "Totality", a fictional alien entity in the Star Trek universe
- (Astronomy) the state or period of an eclipse when light from the eclipsed body is totally obscured
- Whether or not a function is total.
Famous quotes containing the word totality:
“The State’s your mother, your father, the totality of your interests. No discipline can be too severe for the man that denies that by word or deed.”
—H.G. (Herbert George)
“The totality of our so-called knowledge or beliefs, from the most casual matters of geography and history to the profoundest laws of atomic physics or even of pure mathematics and logic, is a man-made fabric which impinges on experience only along the edges. Or, to change the figure, total science is like a field of force whose boundary conditions are experience.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)
“Even the simple act that we call “going to visit a person of our acquaintance” is in part an intellectual act. We fill the physical appearance of the person we see with all the notions we have about him, and in the totality of our impressions about him, these notions play the most important role.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)