totalize

verb — 2 senses

totalize

verb

Etymology From total + -ize.

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 feminism2021, Jasper Sanchez, The (Un)Popular Vote, page 117:
Derived terms
detotalize
Related terms
totalization, totalizer, total

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