oversum
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A whole that is more than the sum of its parts; superaddition.
verb
To add up incorrectly, arriving at a total that is too large.
Example Sentences
- "The tradition consists in understanding a politically active unit as an oversum (that is, a super-additive entity): The whole is more than the sum of its parts."
- "It follows from this counterbalance of majority rule and inalienable absolutes within a given society that the latter is ordered according to the oversum principle: The whole is more than the sum of its parts."
- "Democracy requires an oversum, a koiné, a res publica, a Genossenschaft, a commonwealth, a League such as the Iroquois, a Tewa-Pueblo, that is, an entity of which the citizens are members with membership duties and rights."
- "The Saxonian tradition does not know or rejects the cooperative, the oversum, or superaddition."
- "Thus SB is an over-sum effect."
- "In an account in the ledger, which has been ruled off as square, it is found that the credit side has been oversummed by £ 100."
Etymology
From over- + sum.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: over