exhaustiveness

Not that this word calls for censure in itself; but when packed into a sentence with snow-white, green, and shrimp-pink, it contributes noticeably to that effect of brief and startling exhaustiveness which is one variety of what we have stigmatized as efficiency. [back]

Americanisms. 1908

They are a very normal couple with two kids who are sort of worn down by the exhaustiveness of their life and are jolted by the fact that a couple they know, good friends of theirs (Mark Ruffalo and Kristen Wiig) who seemed to be fine, are now getting divorced.

First look: 'Date Night' rekindles love and laughs in marriage 2009

One might also refer to this as a certain kind of "intelligence" that sets the work apart from other works in which the guiding principle does seem to be an "exhaustiveness" of presentation, a fabricated authenticity that comes from dissociated details rather than a more adventurous literary imagination.

Genre Fiction 2010

Substitute imagination for exhaustiveness, and inventiveness for research.

Genre Fiction 2010

M. John Harrison offers advice for fantasy writers: Substitute imagination for exhaustiveness, and inventiveness for research.

SF Tidbits for 10/6/07 2007

But occasional clumsiness — amid far more exhaustiveness and skill — does not equal cover-up (the usual CT charge) by the Warren Commission, whose august members shrank from fighting back when their report came under attack.

A Knoll of One’s Own 2007

But occasional clumsiness — amid far more exhaustiveness and skill — does not equal cover-up (the usual CT charge) by the Warren Commission, whose august members shrank from fighting back when their report came under attack.

A Knoll of One’s Own 2007

Thomasson (1999, chapter 8) distinguishes categories in terms of what relations of dependence a purported entity has or lacks on mental states (and a second dimension distinguished in terms of what relations of dependence a purported entity has or lacks on spatio-temporally located objects), so that the law of the excluded middle alone ensures mutual exclusiveness and exhaustiveness of the categories distinguished.

Categories Thomasson, Amie 2009

In this episode, Dave Chen, Devindra Hardawar, and Adam Quigley discuss the exhaustiveness of the Star Trek Blu-Ray special features and try to figure out what, if anything, Twilight: New Moon has in common with the Halo series of videogames.

The /Filmcast: After Dark - Ep. 78 - Star Trek Special Features and New Moon Extravaganza (GUEST: C. Robert Cargill from Aint It Cool News) | /Film 2009

It seemed to sit rather uneasily with his insistence on the exhaustiveness of the Constitutional text to the exclusion of unwritten “traditions”.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Guess the Author 2009