exhaustive
adjective
exhausting a subject, topic, etc.; comprehensive; thorough.
exhaustiveness
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a word derived from
exhaustive.
Example Sentences
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"This was the exhaustiveness of the effort," Delacourt said.
From Fox News ● Mar. 4, 2019
They seem intended, rather, to deliver an illusion of thoroughness, of completeness, of spectacular exhaustiveness, that no individual image suggests on its own.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 28, 2018
And though I sometimes got exhausted by the book’s exhaustiveness, I also know that people read and enjoy books for lots of different reasons.
From Slate ● Oct. 2, 2015
Their slapstick is inventive and comes with an almost encyclopedic exhaustiveness.
From New York Times ● Nov. 4, 2011
All have aimed at exhaustiveness, and imagined that if it could be attained, inductive reasoning would be rendered sound, and not impossible.
From Pragmatism by D. L. Murray
