conspectus
Americannoun
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a general or comprehensive view; survey.
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a digest; summary; résumé.
- Synonyms:
- epitome, abstract, brief, compendium
noun
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an overall view; survey
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a summary; résumé
Etymology
Origin of conspectus
1830–40; < Latin: survey, view, act of seeing, equivalent to conspec-, variant stem of conspicere to see, catch sight of ( con- con- + -spicere, combining form of specere to look) + -tus suffix of v. action
Example Sentences
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In terms of sheer quality, this show can claim to be the greatest conspectus of Chinese art ever held in America.
From Time Magazine Archive
Its conspectus of ceramics is quite good, but it's weaker in furniture.
From Time Magazine Archive
Its conspectus of painting, sculpture, architecture and photography, representing the last half of the 19th and the first decade of the 20th century in France, is definitive.
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The conspectus of styles, manners and approaches in the show is somewhat muffled by the lack of key paintings by fundamental masters of realism like Courbet or Honore Daumier.
From Time Magazine Archive
I shall never attain on earth—perhaps I never shall in any world attain—to any complete conspectus of the variously interwoven streams of vitality which are, in fact, obscurely present in my conception of myself.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)
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