enumeration

[ih-noo-muh-rey-shuhn, ih-nyoo-]

noun

1. an act of enumerating.

2. a catalog or list.

Other Word Forms

• preenumeration noun
• reenumeration noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of enumeration¹

First recorded in 1545–55, enumeration is from the Latin word ēnumerātiōn- (stem of ēnumerātiō ). See enumerate, -ion

Example Sentences

We have better statistical models at our disposal now, better things we can use to get a more accurate enumeration of the population.

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Emmy Thelander, an artist and adjunct professor at City University of New York, said it wasn’t the job’s requirements but their obsessive enumeration that was hardest to swallow.

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There are moments when his detailed enumeration of geographic calamities reads like David Wallace-Wells’ “The Uninhabitable Earth,” while some of the procedural stuff comes across like a forward-projected version of Nathaniel Rich’s “Losing Earth.”

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The Ninth Amendment states that the “enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.”

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Constitution that mandates an “actual enumeration” of the U.S. population every 10 years.

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