Difference between Total and Amount

What is the difference between Total and Amount?

Total as a noun is an amount obtained by the addition of smaller amounts. while Amount as a noun is the total, aggregate or sum of a number of items, numbers or material.

Total

Part of speech: noun

Definition: An amount obtained by the addition of smaller amounts. Sum.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: entire; relating to the whole of something complete

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To add up; to calculate the sum of. To equal a total of; to amount to. to demolish; to wreck completely. (from total loss) To amount to; to add up to.

Example sentence: If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?

Amount

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The total, aggregate or sum of a number of items, numbers or material.A quantity or volume.The number of elements in a set.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To total or evaluate.To succeed or have value.

Example sentence: It is not the style of clothes one wears, neither the kind of automobile one drives, nor the amount of money one has in the bank, that counts. These mean nothing. It is simply service that measures success.

We hope you now know whether to use Total or Amount in your sentence.

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