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Webster 1913 Edition
Comprehensiveness
Comˊpre-hen′sive-ness
,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)
- 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.
- 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society 2012, p. 312: