Meanings
- uncountableThe quality of forming a unified whole.
You call me irresponsible, Blacker, but I've got enough imagination to see 'the altogetherness of everything.'
2015, Lisa Regan, Winifred Holtby's Social Vision: 'Members One of Another', page 1073 more examples
We have, however, made a distinct effort also to provide questions which emphasize the "altogetherness" of a given selection.
1962, Jerome Walter Archer, Joseph Schwartz, A Reader for Writers: A Critical Anthology of Prose Readings, page vi'Human multiunity, or altogetherness, actualized in reality', wrote Feodorov, 'is a necessary condition for the understanding of the Divine Triunity. As long as the independence of individuals is expressed as enslavement, just so long will altogetherness as a likenss of the Triunity be simply a though, an ideal.'
1994, David Nicholls, Deity and Domination, page 234"First, there is the mere altogetherness of parts of any cognized object as such." Examples of this altogetherness would be, all people on the earth, or in a state, or in a family, or in a store, and the like.
2009, Frank Channing Haddock, Business Power 3
Origin
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