altogethernessとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

altogetherness (uncountable)

1. The quality of forming a unified whole.
   • 1962, Jerome Walter Archer, ‎Joseph Schwartz, A Reader for Writers: A Critical Anthology of Prose Readings, page vi:

     We have, however, made a distinct effort also to provide questions which emphasize the "altogetherness" of a given selection.

   • 1994, David Nicholls, Deity and Domination, page 234:

     '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.'

   • 2009, Frank Channing Haddock, Business Power 3:

     "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.

   • 2015, Lisa Regan, Winifred Holtby's Social Vision: 'Members One of Another', page 107:

     You call me irresponsible, Blacker, but I've got enough imagination to see 'the altogetherness of everything.'