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Webster 1913 Edition
Representativeness
Repˊre-sent′a-tive-ness
,Noun.
The quality or state of being representative.
Dr. Burnet observes, that every thought is attended with consciousness and
representativeness
. Spectator.
Webster 1828 Edition
Representativeness
REPRESENT'ATIVENESS
,Noun.
Dr. Burnet observes that every thought is attended with consciousness and representativeness.
Definition 2025
representativeness
representativeness
English
Noun
representativeness (uncountable)
- The state or quality of being accurately representative of something.
- 2001, Sydney I. Landau, Dictionaries: The Art and Craft of Lexicography, Cambridge University Press (ISBN 0-521-78512-X), page 331,
- 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 0-521-78512-X), page 331,