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comprehensiveness

UK/kɒmpɹɪˈhɛnsɪvnəs/US/kɑmpɹɪˈhɛnsɪvnəs/

comprehensiveness noun: the state of being comprehensive.

Noun

comprehensiveness (uncountable)

  1. The state of being comprehensive.
    • He was bent on prosecuting without delay his schemes of conquest in other quarters — schemes of a grandeur and a comprehensiveness unknown to any previous monarch.1867, George Rawlinson, M. A., The Five Great Monarchs of the Ancient World, Volume 4 (IV), John Murray, page 364
    • But granting that our ignorance of the extent of Nature's powers may in some respects be incurable, still the question concerning the truth of our knowledge bears with far heavier stress upon its validity, than upon its adequacy or comprehensiveness.1905, Carveth Read, The Garden Month by Month, Adam and Charles Black, pages 109-110

comprehensiveness meaning in Tamil

comprehensiveness in Tamil

முழுமை, நுணுக்கம்

Examples of comprehensiveness in a sentence

  • A word or two is needed concerning the comprehensiveness of this book.1906, Mabel Cabot Sedgwick, Robert Cameron, The Garden Month by Month, Frederick A. Stokes Company, pages 8-9:
  • It was this comprehensiveness which made the art so compelling.1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 312:
  • VI) attests to the comprehensiveness of the effort.1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill....

Origin of comprehensiveness

From comprehensive + -ness.

Questions about comprehensiveness

What does comprehensiveness mean?
Comprehensiveness means the state of being comprehensive.
What is comprehensiveness in Tamil?
Comprehensiveness in Tamil is முழுமை, நுணுக்கம். See Comprehensiveness meaning in Tamil.
How do you use comprehensiveness in a sentence?
A word or two is needed concerning the comprehensiveness of this book.
What part of speech is comprehensiveness?
Comprehensiveness is a noun.
How do you pronounce comprehensiveness?
Comprehensiveness is pronounced /kɑmpɹɪˈhɛnsɪvnəs/ (US).

Words near comprehensiveness in the dictionary

  1. comprehensive insurance
  2. comprehensive insurances
  3. comprehensive school
  4. comprehensive schools
  5. comprehensively
  6. comprehensiveness
  7. comprehensives
  8. comprehensivisation
  9. comprehensivise
  10. comprehensivised
  11. comprehensivises

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Adapted from Wiktionary: comprehensiveness (page history and authors); comprehensiveness (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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