[f. as prec. + -NESS.] The quality of being exhaustive.

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1816.  Bentham, Chrestom., 280. The idea of exhaustiveness as applied to logical division.

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1872.  Minto, Eng. Lit., II. v. 386. The exhaustiveness and subtlety of the thought.

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1885.  Farrar, in Libr. Mag., Dec., 500/2. The exhaustiveness of the curriculum of your University.

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