• Comprehensiveness

    Pronunciation

    • UK IPA: /kÉ’mpɹᵻˈhÉ›nsɪvnÉ™s/

    Origin

    From comprehensive + -ness.

    Full definition of comprehensiveness

    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.
      • Schuster Hepaticae V|viiiThe supplementary bibliography (in Vol. VI) attests to the comprehensiveness of the effort.
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