comprehensiveness
English
Etymology
From comprehensive + -ness.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /kɑmpɹɪˈhɛnsɪvnəs/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kɒmpɹɪˈhɛnsɪvnəs/
Noun
comprehensiveness (uncountable)
- The state of being comprehensive.
- 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, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page viii:
- The supplementary bibliography (in Vol. VI) attests to the comprehensiveness of the effort.
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