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totalize en · VERB

Etymology

Etymology tree English total Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English totalize From total + -ize.

Meanings

  1. To combine parts to make a total.
  2. To treat or construe something as universal, all-embracing, or comprehensive.
    • She's heard me rant enough times about how transmasculine people get thrown under the bus in this kind of totalizing discourse, where any and all masculinity must be sacrificed at the altar of entry-level feminism 2021, Jasper Sanchez, The (Un)Popular Vote, page 117:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
totalizing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
totalized Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
totalized Tense=Past lexicographic
totalizes Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Deriveds

detotalize

Relateds

totalization · total · totalizer

Synonyms

total