Representativeness
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Representativeness is a noun meaning The state or quality of being representative.
Meaning
The state or quality of being representative.
Example Sentences
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.
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.
Synonyms for representativeness
Depending on context, synonyms include representativity.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include representation, represent, representational, symbolism, typical, inclusiveness.
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