nontotalized

Nontotalized (also written non-totalized or nontotalized) is an adjective describing data, accounts, items, or perspectives that have not been summed, aggregated, or incorporated into a single total. The term is used to indicate that component parts remain separate rather than being combined into an overall figure or comprehensive framework.

In data reporting and statistics, nontotalized values appear when individual entries are left disaggregated for clarity, when totals are withheld because of incompleteness or error, or when analysts intentionally preserve detail for subgroup analysis. In electoral contexts, nontotalized ballots or precincts denote vote counts not yet included in official totals, often because of provisional status, recounts, or reporting delays.

In academic and critical discourse, nontotalized can describe approaches that avoid totalizing narratives—those that resist reducing complex social, cultural, or historical phenomena to a single, all-encompassing explanation. Such usage emphasizes plurality, local variation, and the limits of universal claims.

The word is relatively specialized and context-dependent; synonyms include unaggregated, disaggregated, and partial. Orthographic variants (with or without a hyphen) appear in different sources. Users encountering the term should infer its precise meaning from surrounding context—whether it refers to numerical aggregation, legal coverage, conceptual scope, or reporting status. Related concepts include totalization, aggregation, and disaggregation.