Absolute vs. Total

Absoluteadjective

Free of restrictions, limitations, qualifications or conditions; unconditional.

Absoluteadjective

Unrestricted by laws, a constitution, or parliamentary or judicial or other checks; (legally) unlimited in power, especially if despotic.

Absoluteadjective

Free from imperfection, perfect, complete; especially, perfectly embodying a quality in its essential characteristics or to its highest degree.

Absoluteadjective

Pure, free from mixture or adulteration; unmixed.

Absoluteadjective

Complete, utter, outright; unmitigated, not qualified or diminished in any way.

Absoluteadjective

Positive, certain; unquestionable.

Absoluteadjective

(archaic) Certain; free from doubt or uncertainty (e.g. a person, opinion or prediction).

Absoluteadjective

Fundamental, ultimate, intrinsic; not relative; independent of references or relations to other things or standards.

Absoluteadjective

(physics) Independent of arbitrary units of measurement, standards, or properties; not comparative or relative.

Absoluteadjective

Having reference to or derived in the simplest manner from the fundamental units of mass, time, and length.

Absoluteadjective

Relating to the absolute temperature scale (based on absolute zero); kelvin.

Absoluteadjective

(grammar) Not immediately dependent on the other parts of the sentence; not in a syntactical relation with other parts of a text, or qualifying the text as a whole rather than any single word in it, like "it being over" in "it being over, she left".

Absoluteadjective

(of a case form) Syntactically connected to the rest of the sentence in an atypical manner, or not relating to or depending on it, like in the nominative absolute or genitive absolute, accusative absolute or ablative absolute.

Absoluteadjective

(of an adjective or possessive pronoun) Lacking a modified substantive, like "hungry" in "feed the hungry".

Absoluteadjective

Expressing a relative term without a definite comparison, like "older" in "an older person should be treated with respect".

Absoluteadjective

Positive; not graded (not comparative or superlative).

Absoluteadjective

(of a usually-transitive verb) Having no direct object, like "kill" in "if looks could kill".

Absoluteadjective

Being or pertaining to an inflected verb that is not preceded by any number of articles or compounded with a preverb.

Absoluteadjective

(math) As measured using an absolute value.

Absoluteadjective

(math) Indicating an expression that is true for all real numbers, or of all values of the variable; unconditional.

Absoluteadjective

(education) Pertaining to a grading system based on the knowledge of the individual and not on the comparative knowledge of the group of students.

Absoluteadjective

Independent of (references to) other arts; expressing things (beauty, ideas, etc) only in one art.

Absoluteadjective

(obsolete) Absolved; free.

Absolutenoun

That which is independent of context-dependent interpretation, inviolate, fundamental.

Absolutenoun

Anything that is absolute.

Absolutenoun

(geometry) In a plane, the two imaginary circular points at infinity; in space of three dimensions, the imaginary circle at infinity.

Absolutenoun

A realm which exists without reference to anything else; that which can be imagined purely by itself; absolute ego.

Absolutenoun

The unity of spirit and nature; God.

Absolutenoun

The whole of reality; the totality to which everything is reduced.

Absolutenoun

Concentrated natural flower oil, used for perfumes.

Absoluteadjective

Loosed from any limitation or condition; uncontrolled; unrestricted; unconditional; as, absolute authority, monarchy, sovereignty, an absolute promise or command; absolute power; an absolute monarch.

Absoluteadjective

Complete in itself; perfect; consummate; faultless; as, absolute perfection; absolute beauty.

Absoluteadjective

Viewed apart from modifying influences or without comparison with other objects; actual; real; - opposed to relative and comparative; as, absolute motion; absolute time or space.

Absoluteadjective

Loosed from, or unconnected by, dependence on any other being; self-existent; self-sufficing.

Absoluteadjective

Capable of being thought or conceived by itself alone; unconditioned; non-relative.

Absoluteadjective

Positive; clear; certain; not doubtful.

Absoluteadjective

Authoritative; peremptory.

Absoluteadjective

Pure; unmixed; as, absolute alcohol.

Absoluteadjective

Not immediately dependent on the other parts of the sentence in government; as, the case absolute. See Ablative absolute, under Ablative.

Absolutenoun

In a plane, the two imaginary circular points at infinity; in space of three dimensions, the imaginary circle at infinity.

Absolutenoun

something that is conceived to be absolute; something that does not depends on anything else and is beyond human control;

Absoluteadjective

perfect or complete or pure;

Absoluteadjective

complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers;

Absoluteadjective

not limited by law;

Absoluteadjective

expressing finality with no implication of possible change;

Absoluteadjective

without conditions or limitations;

Absoluteadjective

not capable of being violated or infringed;

Totalnoun

An amount obtained by the addition of smaller amounts.

Totalnoun

Sum.

Totaladjective

Entire; relating to the whole of something.

Totaladjective

(used as an intensifier) Complete; absolute.

Totalverb

(transitive) To add up; to calculate the sum of.

Totalverb

To equal a total of; to amount to.

Totalverb

to demolish; to wreck completely. (from total loss)

Totalverb

(intransitive) To amount to; to add up to.

Totaladjective

Whole; not divided; entire; full; complete; absolute; as, a total departure from the evidence; a total loss.

Totalnoun

The whole; the whole sum or amount; as, these sums added make the grand total of five millions.

Totalverb

To bring to a total; also, to reach as a total; to amount to.

Totalverb

to determine the total of (a set of numbers); to add; - often used with up; as, to total up the bill.

Totalverb

To damage beyond repair; - used especially of vehicles damaged in an accident; as, he skid on an ice patch and totaled his Mercedes against a tree. From total loss.

Totalnoun

the whole amount

Totalnoun

a quantity obtained by addition

Totalverb

add up in number or quantity;

Totalverb

determine the sum of;

Totaladjective

constituting the full quantity or extent; complete;

Totaladjective

including everything;

Totaladjective

without conditions or limitations;

Totaladjective

complete in extent or degree and in every particular;

Totaladjective

comprising the whole number or amount

Totaladjective

complete; absolute

Totalnoun

the whole number or amount of something

Totalverb

amount in number to

Totalverb

add up the full number or amount of

Totalverb

damage (something, typically a vehicle) beyond repair; wreck