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An ability to understand a broad range of topics
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comprehensiveness
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Word definitions for comprehensiveness in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Comprehensiveness \Com`pre*hen"sive*ness\, n. The quality of being comprehensive; extensiveness of scope. Compare the beauty and comprehensiveness of legends on ancient coins. --Addison.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. completeness over a broad scope [syn: fullness ] an ability to understand a broad range of topics; "a teacher must have a breadth of knowledge of the subject" [syn: breadth ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The state of being comprehensive.
Usage examples of comprehensiveness.
For in the mere act of penning my thoughts of this Leviathan, they weary me, and make me faint with their outreaching comprehensiveness of sweep, as if to include the whole circle of the sciences, and all the generations of whales, and men, and mastodons, past, present, and to come, with all the revolving panoramas of empire on earth, and throughout the whole universe, not excluding its suburbs.
In particularity and comprehensiveness of news-collecting, it may be admitted that the American newspapers for a time led the world.