sum total
Everything added together
The sum total is the complete amount when everything is added together.
The phrase is slightly redundant—sum already implies a total—but the doubling adds emphasis: The sum total of my savings wouldn't cover a month's rent.
Often used to stress completeness or, ironically, inadequacy: That's the sum total of what I know about it.
- entiretyThe whole of something
- wholeFull and undivided
- whole nine yardsTotal extent possible
- whole enchiladaThe complete amount
- whole shebangThe complete package
kit and caboodle · aggregate · amount · in toto · schmear · calculation · full · bulk · completeness · all · big picture · the works · gestalt · mass · add up · comprehensiveness · overall · count
- additionplus, add, addend, addition, plus sign
- completenesscomplete, completely, entire, totally, entirely
- totalityall, entirety, everything, whole, complete
- totalstally, aggregate, accumulation, combined, all told
- Redundanciestautology, pleonasm, redundancy, redundant phrase, added bonus
- endingsending, the end, finish, close, final
aggregation/division
sum totalcomponent
Element of a system
constituent · unit · breakdown · subdivision · itemization
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