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Listing things one by one, as if order alone could tame chaos.
means The act of naming or counting items individually, one at a time, rather than referring to them as a vague group.
from From Latin enumerare — 'e-' (out, thoroughly) plus 'numerare' (to count, from numerus, 'number'). So at its root it just means to count things out fully, one by one, which is exactly the compulsive, list-making energy the word still carries today.
- origin
- from Latin enumerare, to count out
- security use
- hackers enumerate systems before attacking them
- math twist
- some infinities cannot be enumerated at all
- rhetoric trick
- listing points makes arguments feel more convincing