Meaning & use
cumulation
The gradual accumulation or piling up of separate things into a larger mass or total.
See it in a sentence
Years of small savings resulted in a slow cumulation of wealth that surprised even her accountant.
The judge addressed the cumulation of minor offenses that had built into a serious criminal record.
A note on using this word
Cumulation is a formal, fairly rare synonym of accumulation, especially common in legal and academic writing.
Words with a similar meaning
accumulationbuildup
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Words with an opposite meaning
dispersal
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