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repreˈsentativeness
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The character of being representative.
1664H. More Myst. Iniq. 226 Observing what Reason will..spy out concerning their significancy and representativeness of things. 1684T. Burnet Th. Earth i. 302 In a thought there are two things, consciousness, and a representation... Now what hath local motion to do with either of these two, consciousness, or representativeness? 1704Norris Ideal World ii. xi. 418 The possibility of this like⁓wise appears from the essential representativeness of their nature. 1842Mrs. Browning Grk. Chr. Poets 21 No ancient could be missed in the all-comprehensive representativeness of the Laodicæan writer. 1887Pall Mall G. 2 June 5/2 A critical analysis reveals a..weakness in the display, from the point of view of just ‘representativeness’. |