Addition and Sum

Addition

Addition noun - A smaller structure added to a main building.

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Sum and addition are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Sum" instead a noun "Addition".

Sum noun - A complete amount of something.

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Addition and sum are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Addition" instead a noun "Sum".

good	good addition	good sum
nice	nice addition	nice sum
positive	positive addition	positive sum
original	original addition	original sum
Other adjectives: small, healthy, great, worthy, possible, mere.

Similarly, there is some debate between those who claim that referring to a subtraction operation such as 12-7 as a "sum" is incorrect and should be called a "difference," and those who argue that since subtraction is just the addition of a negative number to some other number, 12-7 is still a sum.

Source: The Big List of Booboos and Blunders
In addition to living on the streets as a homeless man, he also possessed a crippling fear of musical instruments and had a life insurance policy that paid an insanely large sum if he was killed by one.

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