All-encompassing
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: All-encompassing is an adjective meaning Including everything; universal.
Meaning
Including everything; universal.
Example Sentences
This essay, "Identity: Skin Blood Heart," is an account of her struggle to wrench herself free from the all-encompassing racist indoctrination that white people in North America are taught.
[…] since the goddess Antu did not hold a prominent status at Uruk before the fifth century. The primary purpose of MLC 1890 was evidently to present Antu as universal goddess and all-encompassing cosmic location.
The desire to get back into the womb can become, in a creative way, a making of a womb out of the whole world, including everything in the womb (the city, the enlarged universe of Black Spring, of The Black Book), the all-englobing, all-encompassing womb, holding everything.
Synonyms for all-encompassing
Depending on context, synonyms include comprehensive, overall, all around, all-embracing, all-inclusive, broad.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include all-embracing, across-the-board, comprehensive, broad, wide, panoptic.
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