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Webster 1913 Edition


Comprehensiveness

Comˊpre-hen′sive-ness

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Noun.
The quality of being comprehensive; extensiveness of scope.
Compare the beauty and
comprehensiveness
of legends on ancient coins.
Addison.

Webster 1828 Edition


Comprehensiveness

COMPREHENSIVENESS

,
Noun.
1.
The quality of being comprehensive, or of including much extent; as the comprehensiveness of a view.
2.
The quality of including much in a few words or narrow compass.
Compare the beauty and comprehensiveness of legends on ancient coins.

Definition 2024


comprehensiveness

comprehensiveness

English

Noun

comprehensiveness (uncountable)

  1. The state of being comprehensive.
    • 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society 2012, p. 312:
      It was this comprehensiveness which made the art so compelling.
    • 1992, Rudolf M. Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, page viii
      The supplementary bibliography (in Vol. VI) attests to the comprehensiveness of the effort.