Noun: entirety
| Singular | entirety |
| Plural | entireties |
Sample Sentences
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Due to the early rainout, the game will be replayed in its entirety on Friday.
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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. [2019 September 8, Andrew Benson, BBC Sport:]
Nouns inflected like entirety
clitoridectomy,
royal jelly,
whoopsy,
surrogacy,
urinary,
rastrography,
renoscopy,
sourtop blueberry,
forcible entry,
superficiary,
lipidosity,
potability,
phonography,
hyperproperty,
greenery,
conjugality,
ring singularity,
Brittany,
ignobility,
obscurity, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English enterete, from Old French entiereté, from Latin integritās, from integer (“complete, whole”). Doublet of integrity. See: Middle English Nouns '
enterete', Latin Nouns '
integritās'.