Absolute vs. Total

Absolute vs. Total — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Absolute and Total

Absoluteadjective

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

Totalnoun

An amount obtained by the addition of smaller amounts.

A total of £145 was raised by the bring-and-buy stall.

Absoluteadjective

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

Totalnoun

Sum.

The total of 4, 5 and 6 is 15.

Absoluteadjective

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

absolute purity, absolute liberty

Totaladjective

Entire; relating to the whole of something.

The total book is rubbish from start to finish.The total number of votes cast is 3,270.
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Absoluteadjective

Pure, free from mixture or adulteration; unmixed.

absolute alcohol

Totaladjective

(used as an intensifier) Complete; absolute.

He is a total failure.

Absoluteadjective

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

When caught, he told an absolute lie.an absolute denial of all charges

Totalverb

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

When we totalled the takings, we always got a different figure.

Absoluteadjective

Positive, certain; unquestionable.

Totalverb

To equal a total of; to amount to.

That totals seven times so far.
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Absoluteadjective

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

Totalverb

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

Honey, I’m OK, but I’ve totaled the car.

Absoluteadjective

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

the doctrine that absolute knowledge of things is possible, an absolute principleAbsolute rights and duties are such as pertain to man in a state of nature as contradistinguished from relative rights and duties, or such as pertain to him in his social relations.

Totalverb

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

It totals nearly a pound.

Absoluteadjective

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

absolute velocity, absolute motion, absolute position

Totalnoun

the whole amount

Absoluteadjective

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

Totalnoun

a quantity obtained by addition

Absoluteadjective

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

Totalverb

add up in number or quantity;

The bills amounted to $2,000The bill came to $2,000

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".

Totalverb

determine the sum of;

Add all the people in this town to those of the neighboring town

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.

Totaladjective

constituting the full quantity or extent; complete;

an entire town devastated by an earthquakegave full attentiona total failure

Absoluteadjective

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

Totaladjective

including everything;

the overall costthe total amount owed

Absoluteadjective

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

Totaladjective

without conditions or limitations;

a total ban

Absoluteadjective

Positive; not graded (not comparative or superlative).

Totaladjective

complete in extent or degree and in every particular;

a full gamea total eclipsea total disaster

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.

absolute deviationabsolute squaremean absolute' difference

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.

absolute music''

Absoluteadjective

(obsolete) Absolved; free.

Absolutenoun

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

moral absolutes

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.

Absolutenoun

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

no mortal being can influence the absolute

Absoluteadjective

perfect or complete or pure;

absolute loyaltyabsolute silenceabsolute truthabsolute alcohol

Absoluteadjective

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

absolute freedoman absolute dimwita downright lieout-and-out mayheman out-and-out liea rank outsidermany right-down vicesgot the job through sheer persistencesheer stupidity

Absoluteadjective

not limited by law;

an absolute monarch

Absoluteadjective

expressing finality with no implication of possible change;

an absolute (or unequivocal) quarantee to respect the nation's authorityinability to make a conclusive (or unequivocal) refusal

Absoluteadjective

without conditions or limitations;

a total ban

Absoluteadjective

not capable of being violated or infringed;

infrangible human rights