EXTENSIVENESS Synonyms: 68 Similar and Opposite Words

extensiveness

noun

as in largeness

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as in comprehensiveness

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Noun

There was a bigness to not just the melodies and choruses, but to the emotions being expressed.

— Brendan Hay, SPIN, 13 Apr. 2026

Definition of bigness

Noun

Like plumbing or shoe cobbling, injecting involves an apprenticeship-type of learning, the comprehensiveness of which seems to be left to the injector.

— Deanna Pai, Allure, 18 Nov. 2025
Federal economic data is considered the gold standard because of its longstanding reliability, quality, comprehensiveness, history and transparency.

— Alicia Wallace, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2025

Definition of comprehensiveness

Noun

Even Musk, despite his vow to take a chainsaw to the bureaucracy, seemed exhausted by the vastness of what his Department of Government Efficiency had taken on, and abandoned DOGE over a year earlier than planned.

— Jennifer Pahlka, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2026
The book features portraits of puesteros between shots of domestic settings and local landscapes—the little that belongs to them and the vastness that does not.

— Ana Karina Zatarain, New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2026

Definition of vastness

Noun

The governor’s office did not respond to questions about the thoroughness of their vetting process for political appointees.

— Claire Heddles, Miami Herald, 20 Aug. 2026
Sanft focused the first day of testimony on questioning the thoroughness of the work of investigators in the three decades-old case, saying he’s not convinced Tupac Shakur’s murder will ever be solved.

— Aditi Sangal, CNN Money, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of thoroughness

Noun

Take in the 55-foot-high arches with their 29,000 Guastavino ceiling tiles, the larger-than-life windows, and try, just try, to reckon with the immensity of Detroit's story.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 July 2026
But Supergirl doesn’t quite want to deal with the immensity of its protagonist’s feelings; her drunken stupor is often played for laughs, defined by disheveled hair, big sunglasses, and plenty of slurred speech.

— David Sims, The Atlantic, 26 June 2026

Definition of immensity

Noun

Many Black parishioners who joined the Peoples Temple attested to the church’s racial inclusiveness.

— James Kirchick, The Atlantic, 13 Aug. 2026
Some of Missouri’s strengths include its ratings in air quality and worker protections, while other weaknesses include its ratings in health and inclusiveness.

— Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 13 July 2026

Definition of inclusiveness

Noun

But there have also been many mid-30s former All-Stars who couldn’t muster anything remotely close to greatness during their twilight tours with the Heat.

— Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 23 Aug. 2026
Between 2009 and 2018, their rivalry transformed El Clasico into a global TV event and turned La Liga into a weekly referendum on individual greatness.

— Clemente Lisi, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of greatness

Noun

This project might strike you as dystopian and disturbing, or exciting and encouraging – and its ethical soundness comes down to a few key factors, several experts told CNN.

— Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 25 July 2026
Some states require private schools participating in voucher programs to demonstrate some form of financial soundness.

— Mollie Simon, ProPublica, 16 July 2026

Definition of soundness

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