Meaning & use
Comprehensiveness
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The quality of being thorough and including all or nearly all elements of a subject or situation.
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Reviewers praised the textbook's comprehensiveness, noting how few topics it left out.
The audit was valued for its comprehensiveness, covering every department in the company.
A note on using this word
Comprehensiveness is the noun form of 'comprehensive,' both tracing back to Latin 'comprehendere,' meaning to grasp or include fully.
Words with a similar meaning
thoroughnesscompleteness
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Words with an opposite meaning
incompletenessnarrowness
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