representativeness

English

Etymology

representative +‎ -ness

Noun

representativeness (uncountable)

1. The state or quality of being representative.
   • 2001, Sydney I. Landau, Dictionaries: The Art and Craft of Lexicography, Cambridge University Press →ISBN, page 331,

     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.