comprehensiveness

English

Etymology

From comprehensive +‎ -ness.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /kɑmpɹɪˈhɛnsɪvnəs/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kɒmpɹɪˈhɛnsɪvnəs/

Noun

comprehensiveness (uncountable)

1. The state of being comprehensive.

   Hypernym: extensiveness

   Hyponym: exhaustiveness

   Coordinate term: comprehension

   • 1867, George Rawlinson, M. A., The Five Great Monarchs of the Ancient World, Volume 4 (IV)‎, John Murray, page 364:

     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.

   • 1905, Carveth Read, The Garden Month by Month‎, Adam and Charles Black, pages 109-110:

     But granting that our ignorance of the extent of Nature's powers may in some respects be incurable, still the question concerning the truth of our knowledge bears with far heavier stress upon its validity, than upon its adequacy or comprehensiveness.

   • 1906, Mabel Cabot Sedgwick, Robert Cameron, The Garden Month by Month‎, Frederick A. Stokes Company, pages 8-9:

     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.

   • 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 312:

     It was this comprehensiveness which made the art so compelling.

   • 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page viii:

     The supplementary bibliography (in Vol. VI) attests to the comprehensiveness of the effort.