Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being comprehensive.
- noun The quality of comprehending or embracing a great many particulars; extensiveness of scope or range.
- noun The power of understanding, comprehending, or taking in; especially, greatness of intellectual range; capaciousness of mind.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality of being comprehensive; extensiveness of scope.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state of being
comprehensive .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the capacity to understand a broad range of topics
- noun completeness over a broad scope
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Examples
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Our benefits were astonishing in comprehensiveness and quality of care.
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The Church of England has always taken pride in its "comprehensiveness" - a British tolerance for theological diversity dating to Queen Elizabeth I, who combined element of Catholicism and Protestant ism to form a "bridge" between the two traditions.
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But the marvel of his comprehensiveness is his mode of dealing with the vulgar, the vicious, and the low, -- with persons who are commonly spurned as dolts and knaves.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867 Various
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By the same token, while epic always retained certain essential elements (like scope), new topics meant new challenges to the boundary of the genre; apocalyptic epics, as Tucker points out, certainly brought new meaning to the term "comprehensiveness" (249).
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By the same token, while epic always retained certain essential elements (like scope), new topics meant new challenges to the boundary of the genre; apocalyptic epics, as Tucker points out, certainly brought new meaning to the term "comprehensiveness" (249).
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In the methods laid down by them for teaching boys, for the thorough education of boys as part of one great human family, -- that is, for their higher instruction, -- I failed to find that comprehensiveness which is alone sufficient to satisfy the human being.
Autobiography of Friedrich Froebel $c translated and annotated by Emilie Michaelis ... and H. Keatley Moore. Friedrich Fr��bel 1817
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Like Big Bang cosmology or Neo-Darwinism, the theory of intelligent design in biology is not religious because it lacks "comprehensiveness" and is
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Like Big Bang cosmology or Neo-Darwinism, the theory of intelligent design in biology is not religious because it lacks "comprehensiveness" and is
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As a guide to action, though, the 'comprehensiveness' ideal suggests trying to be all things to all people.
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When asked if Google is interested in striking a deal like this with Facebook, Mayer said, "We're interested in comprehensiveness, which is a fundamental element of search.
PC World 2009
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