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
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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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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
Theirs is a reflective hanging, full of aesthetic surprises, and the most sensible way to make the best of an incomplete conspectus that is, nevertheless, well sprinkled with masterpieces.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 painting, sculpture, architecture and photography, representing the last half of the 19th and the first decade of the 20th century in France, is definitive.
From Time Magazine Archive
He has no occasion to construct a vast conspectus, which shall summarize the whole economic situation, in its social setting.
From The Value of Money by Anderson, Benjamin M.
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