SuaviloquyToday’s word

enumeration

Enumeration, n.

Etymology: [L. enumeratio: cf. F. énumération.]

1. The act of enumerating, making separate mention, or recounting.

2. A detailed account, in which each thing is specially noticed. Because almost every man we meet possesses these, we leave them out of our enumeration. Paley.

3. (Rhet.)

A recapitulation, in the peroration, of the heads of an argument.

Shades of meaning

Fernald has no entry of its own for enumeration; he lists it under record.

He lists it without comment; the entries above explain its neighbors.