The whole of something; the complete or total amount of something without anything missing or left out.
From Old French 'entierté,' derived from Latin 'integer' meaning 'whole' or 'untouched.' The word entered English in the 13th century and has consistently meant 'wholeness.'
The phrase 'in its entirety' is used in legal documents, art criticism, and scholarship because it precisely means 'the complete thing without edits or selections'—it's a technical exactness word!
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