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comprehensiveness|kɒmprɪˈhɛnsɪvnɪs|
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
Comprehensive quality or state, the quality of comprising or including much.
1635Shelford Five Treat. 188 The universalitie and comprehensivenesse of God's will. 1690Locke Hum. Und. iv. vi. (1695) 333 General Truths..by their comprehensiveness.. enlarge our view, and shorten our way to Knowledge. 1791Burke App. Whigs Wks. VI. 222 In learning, sense, energy, and comprehensiveness it is fully equal to all the modern dissertations. 1883Harper's Mag. Feb. 473/1 The comprehensiveness of the volume is surprising.
b. spec. Breadth of intellectual range, mental capaciousness.
1683Cave Ecclesiastici, Basil 218 The quickness and comprehensiveness of his Parts. 1759Johnson Rasselas xxviii. 81 Those, whose accuracy of remark, and comprehensiveness of knowledge, made their suffrages worthy of regard. 1873Symonds Grk. Poets ii. 37 Nothing is more remarkable about Empedocles than his versatility and comprehensiveness. |