noun. A collection; an aggregation.

A collection of several particles or bodies in one mass or aggregate; an assemblage or accumulation of things; a combination; an aggregation; a heap.

noun. A collection of particles or bodies into one mass; a heap; an aggregation.

noun. A collection or aggregation of disparate items.

noun. a sum total of many heterogenous things taken together

"A book can be a collection of linked stories, or it can be an episodic novel whose chapters have sufficient unity to have been first published separately such as Faulkner's "The Unvanquished", and both are just dandy, but the form I call a congeries hovers somewhere in between."

sum  sum total  summation  

Anschluss  accumulation  accumulation  acervation  addition