comprehensiveness

1. 1.

   completeness over a broad scope

   Synonymsfullness

   Broadercompleteness
2. 2.

   the capacity to understand a broad range of topics

   “a teacher must have a breadth of knowledge of the subject”

   “a man distinguished by the largeness and scope of his views”

   Synonymsbreadthlargeness

   Broaderintelligence

   Narrowercapaciousness

Other forms of comprehensiveness

plural

comprehensivenesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about comprehensiveness

What does comprehensiveness mean?

comprehensiveness means "completeness over a broad scope". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in comprehensiveness?

comprehensiveness has 6 syllables: com-pre-hen-si-ve-ness. The stress falls on "si".

What is another word for comprehensiveness?

Close synonyms include fullness, breadth, largeness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is comprehensiveness a common word?

comprehensiveness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.