Representativeness
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 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."
Example
More examples"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.