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🇫🇷French Source WordCode: FR

exhaustivité

Pronunciation / Transliteration: /ɛɡ.zɔs.ti.vi.te/

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Comprehensiveness/ˌkɒm.prɪˈhen.sɪv.nəs/
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🇫🇷 Example Sentence in French:

"L'exhaustivité de cette étude est remarquable."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The quality of including all or nearly all relevant items, details, or aspects.

    "The committee praised the report for its thoroughness and comprehensiveness."
  2. 2

    Wide scope or broad coverage of a subject matter.

    "The comprehensiveness of the archive makes it an invaluable resource for historians."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin 'comprehensivus', stemming from 'comprehendere' meaning 'to take together' or 'to grasp'. Over centuries, the suffix '-ness' was added in Middle/Modern English to form a noun denoting the quality of including all or nearly all elements or aspects.

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