Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

representativeness

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.82 in modern English

Syllables: rep-re-sen-ta-tive-ness
IPA

23

Scrabble Score

18

Letters

6

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The state or quality of being representative.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"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."
"Our examination of the representativeness of WEIRD subjects is necessarily restricted to the rather limited database currently available."
"Drawing on texts recommended in curricula and controlling for two countries with benchmarked curricula improves the external representativeness of the corpus."

Etymology

Etymology tree English representative Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English representativeness From representative + -ness.

Usage

Uncountable

Synonyms

representativity

Questions

What does representativeness mean?: The state or quality of being representative.
Where does representativeness come from?: Etymology tree English representative Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English representativeness From representative + -ness.

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