enumeration

American  

[ih-noo-muh-rey-shuhn, ih-nyoo-] / ɪˌnu məˈreɪ ʃən, ɪˌnyu- /

noun

1. an act of enumerating.

2. a catalog or list.

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Other Word Forms

• preenumeration noun
• reenumeration noun

Etymology

Origin of enumeration

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

Example Sentences

Mr Teltumbde's deeper worry is that enumeration legitimises what it measures.

From BBC • Nov. 12, 2025

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

From Salon • Jul. 14, 2024

Lacking Spotify, they decided to pass the time by undertaking “an enumeration and actual count” of road-killed animals—a battered weasel here, a flattened garter snake there.

From Slate • May 25, 2024

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.

From New York Times • Feb. 26, 2023

The voice rose and fell in a rhythmical, dreamlike recital-part enumeration of earthly trials undergone by the congregation, part rapt display of vocal virtuosity, part appeal to God.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison