COMPREHENSIVENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does comprehensiveness mean? 

• COMPREHENSIVENESS (noun)
  The noun COMPREHENSIVENESS has 2 senses:

1. completeness over a broad scope

2. the capacity to understand a broad range of topics

  Familiarity information: COMPREHENSIVENESS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMPREHENSIVENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Completeness over a broad scope

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

comprehensiveness; fullness

Hypernyms ("comprehensiveness" is a kind of...):

completeness (the state of being complete and entire; having everything that is needed)

Attribute:

comprehensive (including all or everything)

Derivation:

comprehensive (including all or everything)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The capacity to understand a broad range of topics

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

breadth; comprehensiveness; largeness

Context example:

a man distinguished by the largeness and scope of his views

Hypernyms ("comprehensiveness" is a kind of...):

intelligence (the ability to comprehend; to understand and profit from experience)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "comprehensiveness"):

capaciousness; roominess (intellectual breadth)

Derivation:

comprehensive (broad in scope)