totalize

English

Etymology

From total +‎ -ize.

Verb

totalize (third-person singular simple present totalizes, present participle totalizing, simple past and past participle totalized)

1. To combine parts to make a total.

   Synonym: total

2. To treat or construe something as universal, all-embracing, or comprehensive.
   • 2021, Jasper Sanchez, The (Un)Popular Vote, page 117:

     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

Related terms

• totalization
• totalizer
• total