cumulativeness

noun

Definition of cumulativenessnext
as in completeness

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  1. completeness
  2. entirety
  3. comprehensiveness
  4. sum total
Noun
  • Some of the value lies in the pattern, completeness, and condition, but check before casting off a set or individual pieces of bone china.
    — Jennifer Prince, Southern Living, 25 Sep. 2026
  • Track data completeness scores, drift metrics and validation pass rates weekly, not just task percentages.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of completeness
Noun
  • The researchers say the goal is not to reproduce a sensory cell in its entirety, but to recreate some of its fundamental operating principles.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 29 Sep. 2026
  • For Japan, the 44 weeks of the individual parental leave entitlements for the mother must be used simultaneously with the father if both parents are to use the entirety of their entitlement.
    — Megan Kuykendoll, The Conversation, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of entirety
Noun
  • Like plumbing or shoe cobbling, injecting involves an apprenticeship-type of learning, the comprehensiveness of which seems to be left to the injector.
    — Deanna Pai, Allure, 18 Nov. 2025
  • Federal economic data is considered the gold standard because of its longstanding reliability, quality, comprehensiveness, history and transparency.
    — Alicia Wallace, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2025
Definition of comprehensiveness
Noun
  • That is not to overstate what those four produced with the Heat, with a sum total of zero playoff-game victories over the past two seasons, only one over the past three.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 18 July 2026
  • This ingredient outmasses the full sum total of all normal matter by about a 5-to-1 ratio, clumps and clusters like (slow-moving) matter does, but doesn’t interact with normal matter or light in any measurable way.
    — Big Think, Big Think, 21 Apr. 2026
Definition of sum total
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“Cumulativeness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cumulativeness. Accessed 4 Oct. 2026.

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