comprehensiveness
- noun
- /ˌkɒmprɪˈhɛnsɪvnəs/
- Teachers select instructional materials and resources based on their comprehensiveness, accuracy, and usefulness for representing particular ideas and concepts.
- comprehensiveness and responsiveness
- comprehensiveness and quality
- comprehensiveness and complexity
And so you can't expect the same sort of comprehensiveness from Aristotle as you might from a later philosopher.
- And so you can't expect the same sort of comprehensiveness from Aristotle as you might from a later philosopher.
- What did he, What was the word speechless was the word he used with admiration for the comprehensiveness and the rigour with which I had written.
Examples
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Rather than striving for anything like comprehensiveness, I have selected evidence that reveals a broad range of attitudes.
Academic text (1993) -
While these studies used different assessment tools, all found a significant lack of comprehensiveness in school or district policies.
Academic text (2013) -
For the most part, when we think of collection development, we think in terms of comprehensiveness.
Academic text (2012) -
A second difference concerns the comprehensiveness and detail of the arrangements.
Academic text (2001) -
Community college mission statements reflecting the theme of comprehensiveness met at least one of two criteria.
Academic text (2002) -
For this reason, there have been various criticisms regarding the comprehensiveness and transparency of the process.
Academic text (2017) -
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the comprehensiveness of tobacco policies in St. Louis County public school districts.
Academic text (2013) -
And so you can't expect the same sort of comprehensiveness from Aristotle as you might from a later philosopher.
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Seventy-nine of the 102 college mission statements reflected a theme of comprehensiveness (p = .7745, SE = .04).
Academic text (2002) -
The comprehensiveness of the report ensured that all relevant details were included for the review.
Synonyms
The range of subjects a person knows about
A complete account that covers all main parts
Careful work that checks every detail
The state of having everything needed
Large size or range that includes many parts
Being very thorough and covering all important details
The state of being complete and leaving nothing out
Antonyms
How Complete
- Formal
Surface Forms
Morphology
comprehensiveness = comprehensive (transparent) = comprehensive + ness
Forming a noun from the adjective 'comprehensive' with the productive suffix '-ness' yields the meaning 'the quality of being comprehensive'.
Etymology
Comprehensiveness comes from comprehend, which breaks into com- 'together' and prehend 'to grasp'. So comprehensiveness is like 'grasping' everything at once and means being complete and including all parts.