inclusiveness.

The extent to which relevant people, perspectives or elements are included.

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Words that belong together

• inclusiveness of consultation
• procedural inclusiveness

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The consultation’s inclusiveness was limited by its inaccessible meeting schedule.

Procedural inclusiveness required more than inviting one representative from each group.

Usage notes

Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: Usually uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: requirements and constraints, institutional organization, formal assessment, system properties. Disciplines: academic writing, formal analysis, institutional studies. Commonness: moderately common.