sum total noun7 •Total; the result of adding a set of figures or counting a number of items.It may be noted that the maximum number and sum total in points of the table may be changed to the second mode simply by multiplying them by two. — 1890 •Entirety; the aggregate of everything.The sum total of my belongings is the clothes in my knapsack. •Entirety.Complete determination demands a comparison of the thing with the sum-total of all possible predicates. — 2012 •Total.We first add the sums in the money columns of the credit side of the account, and find they amount to $57 .50, which is the sum-total of all I have received from him. — 1855 •Epitome.Moreover, by and by the Church will come "out of the tribulation, the great one," the sum total of all tribulations. — 1998 •Epitome.She then shared her idolatrous image with Adam, who represented the sum-total of God's creation. — 2006 •Alternative form of sum total. formssum totals · sum-totals