extensiveness.

The degree to which something covers a wide range or a large area.

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Words that belong together

• the extensiveness of the damage
• the extensiveness of the research

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The extensiveness of the survey made local omissions harder to detect.

Usage notes

Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: Usually uncountable; no ordinary plural in this sense. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: analysis, explanation. Commonness: moderately common.