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Comprehensive vs Comprehensiveness - What's the difference?

comprehensive | comprehensiveness |

As nouns the difference between comprehensive and comprehensiveness

is that comprehensive is (british) a comprehensive school while comprehensiveness is the state of being comprehensive.

As an adjective comprehensive

is broadly]] or completely covering; [[include|including a large proportion of something.

comprehensive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Broadly]] or completely covering; [[include, including a large proportion of something.

    • Synonyms

    * (broadly or completely covering) exhaustive, thorough, all-encompassing

    Derived terms

    * comprehensively * comprehensivization * comprehensivize

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (British) A comprehensive school.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=(Peter Wilby)
    • , volume=189, issue=6, page=30, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Finland spreads word on schools , passage=Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting.}} ----

    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.