detotalize

verb

detotalize

verb

Etymology From de- + totalize.

1

Human sciences, Linguistics, Philosophy, Sciences, Semiotics To cause (something) no longer to be the total state of things, by means of adding something further that is not a part of it; to make incomplete by addition.

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detotalization

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