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noun

complete numerical total: the sum total of my savings.
essence; substance: The sum total of research in the field.

Origin of sum total

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400
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Related Words for sum total

summation, totality, aggregate, all, amount, body, budget, bulk, entirety, gross, jackpot, mass, quantity, quantum, result, sum, tale

Examples from the Web for sum total

Historical Examples of sum total

  • A cook, a butler, and a valet were the sum-total of his retinue.

    The Lure of the Mask

    Harold MacGrath

  • That, at least, was the sum-total as it presented itself to him, and on which he framed his conclusions.

    Michael

    E. F. Benson

  • We cannot evaluate progress as an increase in a sum-total of happiness.

  • (a) Rows of raw fact; (b) Principles, spiritual or sum-total facts.

    The Lost Art of Reading

    Gerald Stanley Lee

  • Consequently the sum-total that you ought to have in hand soon is—how much?

    Childhood

    Leo Tolstoy

Idioms and Phrases with sum total

sum total

The entirety, everything, as in I spent all day in the kitchen and the sum total of my efforts is this cake. [Mid-1600s]

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