all-encompassing

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?

Proto-Indo-European *h₂elnós

Proto-Germanic *allaz

Proto-Germanic *ala-

Proto-West Germanic *ala-

Old English æl-

Middle English all-

English all-

English encompassing

English all-encompassing

From all- + encompassing.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

all-encompassing (comparative more all-encompassing, superlative most all-encompassing)

1. Including everything; universal.
   • 1967, Anaïs Nin, edited by Gunther Stuhlmann, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1934–1939, Swallow Press, page 173:

     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.

   • 1985 February 2, Malkah Barrsey Feldman, “Blacks & Jews: Vulnerability & Values”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 28, page 9:

     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.

   • 2019 January 8, Christine Proust, John Steele, Scholars and Scholarship in Late Babylonian Uruk, Springer, →ISBN, page 248:

     […] 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.

Synonyms

• comprehensive, overall, all around, all-embracing, all-inclusive; see also Thesaurus:comprehensive

Translations

including everything — see also all-embracing,‎ all-inclusive

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 全面的 (zh) (quánmiàn de), 綜合的 / 综合的 (zh) (zōnghé de)

• Czech: všezahrnující
• Dutch: allesomvattend (nl)
• Finnish: kaikenkattava (fi)
• Macedonian: сеопфатен (seopfaten)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: altomfattende, universell

• Occitan: universal (oc)
• Polish: wszechstronny (pl)
• Romanian: universal (ro) m
• Russian: всеобъе́млющий (ru) (vseobʺjémljuščij)
• Spanish: omnímodo (es), omnicomprensivo, omnicomprehensivo, omnienglobante, omnienglobador
• Swedish: allomfattande (sv)
• Turkish: evrensel (tr), kapsamlı (tr), bütüncül (tr)
• Ukrainian: всеохо́плюючий (vseoxópljujučyj), всеося́жний (vseosjážnyj)