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representativeness

representativeness noun: the state or quality of being representative.

Noun

representativeness (uncountable)

  1. The state or quality of being representative.
    • One should not compromise on the essential standard of representativeness of the corpus as a whole. A corpus is only good if it can be reasonably trusted to represent the way language is used by those people whose usage one is interested in describing.2001, Sydney I. Landau, Dictionaries: The Art and Craft of Lexicography, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 331
    • Our examination of the representativeness of WEIRD subjects is necessarily restricted to the rather limited database currently available.2009 March 5, Joseph Henrich, Steven J. Heine, Ara Norenzayan, “The Weirdest People in the World”, in University of British Columbia, page 4

Synonyms of representativeness

Origin of representativeness

From representative + -ness.

Questions about representativeness

What does representativeness mean?
Representativeness means the state or quality of being representative.
What part of speech is representativeness?
Representativeness is a noun.

Words near representativeness in the dictionary

  1. representative government
  2. representative governments
  3. representative money
  4. representative realism
  5. representatively
  6. representativeness
  7. representatives
  8. representativeship
  9. representativeships
  10. representativities
  11. representativity

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