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Overall vs Totality - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between overall and totality

is that overall is (british) a garment worn over other clothing to protect it; a coverall or boiler suit a garment, for manual labor or for casual wear, often made of a single piece of fabric, with long legs and a bib upper, supported from the shoulders with straps, and having several large pockets and loops for carrying tools while totality is the state of being total.

As an adjective overall

is all-encompassing, all around.

As an adverb overall

is generally; with everything considered.

overall

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • All-encompassing, all around.
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    • Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • Generally; with everything considered.

    • Noun

    (wikipedia overall) (en noun)
  • (British) A garment worn over other clothing to protect it; a coverall or boiler suit. A garment, for manual labor or for casual wear, often made of a single piece of fabric, with long legs and a bib upper, supported from the shoulders with straps, and having several large pockets and loops for carrying tools.
  • (in the plural, US) A garment, worn for manual labor, with an integral covering extending to the chest, supported by straps.

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    totality

    English

    Noun

  • the state of being total
  • an aggregate quantity obtained by addition
  • (astronomy) the phase of an eclipse when it is total

    • Synonyms

    * entirety * totalness

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