Total vs Totalism - What's the difference?
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An amount obtained by the addition of smaller amounts.
(informal, mathematics) Sum.
Entire; relating to the whole of something.
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*:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers,. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.
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, title= ((used as an intensifier)) Complete; absolute.
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To add up; to calculate the sum of.
To equal a total of; to amount to.
(transitive, US, slang) to demolish; to wreck completely. (from total loss)
To amount to; to add up to.
A social, economic and/or political system in which some authority (e.g. the state or "the market") wields absolute power; totalitarianism.
* 2010 , Benjamin Barber, Jihad vs. McWorld: Terrorism's Challenge to Democracy (ISBN 0307874443):
* 2011 , Janis Mimura, Planning for Empire (ISBN 0801461332)
* 2013 , Walter Brueggemann, Truth Speaks to Power: The Countercultural Nature of Scripture (ISBN 0664239145), pages 162 and 164:
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A philosophy, ideology or belief system that is total in its scope, one that covers everything.
* 2004 , Personal Epistemology: The Psychology of Beliefs (ISBN 0805852352), page 220:
* 2011 , Lewis S. Feuer, Ideology and the Ideologists (ISBN 1412843510), page 130:
Totality; (the) entirety (of something).
* 1900 , Robert Eno, The Confucian Creation of Heaven (ISBN 0791401901), page 69:
Totalness, absoluteness; the characteristic of being absolute in nature or scope.
* 1981 , The Psychohistory Review , volume 10, parts 2-4, page 173:
* 1993 , Richard L. Gawthrop, Pietism and the Making of Eighteenth-Century Prussia (ISBN 0521431832), page 211:
As nouns the difference between total and totalism
is that total is an amount obtained by the addition of smaller amounts while totalism is a social, economic and/or political system in which some authority (e.g. the state or "the market") wields absolute power; totalitarianism.As an adjective total
is entire; relating to the whole of something.As a verb total
is to add up; to calculate the sum of.total
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Alternative forms
* totall (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- A total of £145 was raised by the bring-and-buy stall.
- The total of 4, 5 and 6 is 15.
See also
* addition, summation: (augend) + (addend) = (summand) + (summand) = (sum, total) * subtraction: (minuend) ? (subtrahend) = (difference) * multiplication: (multiplier) × (multiplicand) = (factor) × (factor) = (product) * division: (dividend) ÷ (divisor) = (quotient), remainder left over if divisor does not divide dividendSynonyms
* (sum) sumDerived terms
* subtotalAdjective
(en adjective)Boundary problems, passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.}}
Synonyms
* (entire) entire, full, whole * (complete) absolute, complete, utter; see alsoDerived terms
* total warVerb
- When we totalled the takings, we always got a different figure.
- That totals seven times so far.
- Honey, I’m OK, but I’ve totaled the car.
- It totals nearly a pound.
Synonyms
* (add up) add up, sum * (demolish) demolish, trash, wreckAnagrams
* 1000 English basic words ----totalism
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(wikipedia totalism)Noun
- If the political totalism' of the fascist and communist world once tried, at horrendous human costs, to subordinate all economic, social, and cultural activity to the demands of an overarching state, the economic ' totalism of unleashed market economics seems now to be trying (at costs yet to be fully reckoned) to subordinate politics, society, and culture to the demands of an overarching market.
- They contrasted the “organic” “leadership” organizations of German and Italian totalism' with the “mechanical,” “dictatorship” organization of communist (Soviet) ' totalism .
- Whenever it can, social power will tend as soon as possible toward totalism'. Such social ' totalism is always a breath away from totalitarianism
- The apostles find a way to testify, in talk and in walk, about a truth that is vigorously and resolutely outside the totalism of Rome.
- To postmodernists, modernism gave the world science, reason, western civilization, Marxism, Freudianism, and other totalisms'. Each of these ' totalisms tells a grand story that relates everything to everything else by using the system's universal principle as a theme.
- And ideologists pride themselves above all on what we might call their ‘totalism'’. Georg Lukacs, for instance, regarded such ' totalism as the outstanding characteristic of Marxism: 'It is not the primacy of economic motives in historical explanation that constitutes the decisive difference between Marxism and bourgeois science, but the point of view of totality', writes Lukacs.
- Once the totalism of Sagehood is grasped, the disciple can throw away his li -books; he will be a perfect ritual actor naturally.
- The ideological fervor, the abhorrence of compromise, the attraction to conflict, and the totalism of his family's rejection of white culture were the biographical themes that served him best as he tried to reach the hearts of his followers.
- The totalism of his commitment led, in turn, to his practice of taking charge of even the smallest matters and of ruling autocratically, since he believed God was holding him completely accountable for every act of his government.