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omnicomprehensive

Syllables: om·ni·com·pre·hen·siveUK/ˌɒmniˌkɒm.pɹɪˈhɛn.sɪv/US/ˌɑmniˌkɑm.pɹəˈhɛn.sɪv/

omnicomprehensive adjective: thoroughly comprehensive.

Adjective

omnicomprehensive (comparative more omnicomprehensive, superlative most omnicomprehensive)

  1. (rare) Thoroughly comprehensive.
    • The Absolute, when regarded truly. as Absolute, cannot, indeed, be otherwise thought of than as one and omnicomprehensive, or, in other words, two or more absolutes cannot be posited together; the rational idea of totality and unity, the highest of all ideas, imperatively demands this.1854, Heinrich Moritz Chalybäus, Historical Survey of Speculative Philosophy from Kant to Hegel: Designed as an Introduction to the Opinions of the Recent Schools, W. F. Draper and Brother, page 203
    • What I said at the beginning of this book about inclusion, in relation to the notion of an omnicomprehensive experience, is equally true about abstraction; these are merely mental operations that subserve certain determinate purposes, and it is at an equally determinate stage in our journey—not...1960, Gabriel Marcel, TheMystery of Being, page 164

Examples of omnicomprehensive in a sentence

  • They erased the immediate and the distant for him, to attain teller attachment, omnicomprehensive company.1974, José Lezama Lima, Paradiso, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 323:
  • Assistance not only should include communication facilities: it must be understood in its widest meaning and in an omnicomprehensive fashion.1977, Heinrich Moritz Chalybäus, Evolving Perspectives on the Right to Communicate, East-West Center, East-West Communication Institute...

Forms of omnicomprehensive

comparativemore omnicomprehensive
superlativemost omnicomprehensive
alternative formomni-comprehensive

Origin of omnicomprehensive

From omni- + comprehensive.

Questions about omnicomprehensive

What does omnicomprehensive mean?
Omnicomprehensive means thoroughly comprehensive.
How do you use omnicomprehensive in a sentence?
They erased the immediate and the distant for him, to attain teller attachment, omnicomprehensive company.
What part of speech is omnicomprehensive?
Omnicomprehensive is an adjective.
How do you pronounce omnicomprehensive?
Omnicomprehensive is pronounced /ˌɒmniˌkɒm.pɹɪˈhɛn.sɪv/ (UK).

Words near omnicomprehensive in the dictionary

  1. omnicognizant
  2. omnicomparativist
  3. omnicompetence
  4. omnicompetences
  5. omnicompetent
  6. omnicomprehensive
  7. omnicomprehensiveness
  8. omniconsiderate
  9. omnicorporeal
  10. omnicredulity
  11. omnicredulous

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