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comprehensiveness

noun
/kɑmpɹɪˈhɛnsɪvnəs/US/kɒmpɹɪˈhɛnsɪvnəs/UK

Etymology

From comprehensive + -ness.

  1. derived from comprehendō
  2. derived from comprehēnsīvus
  3. borrowed from compréhensif
  4. suffixed as comprehensiveness — “comprehensive + ness”

Definitions

  1. The state of being comprehensive.

    • He was bent on prosecuting without delay his schemes of conquest in other quarters — schemes of a grandeur and a comprehensiveness unknown to any previous monarch.
    • A word or two is needed concerning the comprehensiveness of this book. Annuals have not been included, as their dates depend altogether upon the time when their seed is sown.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for comprehensiveness. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA