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Comprehensiveness vs Comprehension - What's the difference?

comprehensiveness | comprehension |

Comprehension is a related term of comprehensiveness.



As nouns the difference between comprehensiveness and comprehension

is that comprehensiveness is the state of being comprehensive while comprehension is thorough understanding.

comprehensiveness

English

Noun

(-)
  • The state of being comprehensive.
  • *1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society 2012, p. 312:
  • *:It was this comprehensiveness which made the art so compelling.
  • *
  • The supplementary bibliography (in Vol. VI) attests to the comprehensiveness of the effort.

    comprehension

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • thorough understanding
  • (logic) The totality of intensions, that is, attributes, characters, marks, properties, or qualities, that the object possesses, or else the totality of intensions that are pertinent to the context of a given discussion.
  • (computing) a compact syntax for generating a list in some functional programming languages
  • Synonyms

    * understanding