Representativeness

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The state or quality of being representative. uncountable

    "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."

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"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."

Etymology

From representative + -ness.

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