encompassing

Meanings

• Verb

  To include or embrace completely; to surround on all sides.

  - "The river encompasses the entire island."
  - "The umbrella encompasses both of us."

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Synonyms

comprehend , embrace

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Rhymes

Words rhyming with encompassing
compassion , impression , expression

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Variants

List of all variants of encompassing that leads to same result
encompass , encompassed , encompasses , encompassing , encompassment , encompassments , all-encompassing

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Forms

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encompasses, encompassed, encompassing

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Etymology

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From Old French 'encompassar', from 'en' meaning 'in' or 'on' and 'compassar' meaning 'to surround'.

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Trivia

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1. The term 'encompassing' is often used in the context of environmental protection and sustainability to describe the idea of protecting and preserving all aspects of an ecosystem.

2. In mathematics, the term 'encompassing' is used to describe a set that includes all other sets within it. For example, the set of all real numbers is said to encompass the sets of natural numbers, integers, and rational numbers.

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Related Concepts

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1. comprehensive: Related to the ability to understand or include all aspects of something.

2. embrace: To hold or support someone or something with one's arms, often as a sign of love or acceptance.

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Culture

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Encompassing is often used in literature and poetry to describe a sense of completeness or all-encompassing love. For example, in Shakespeare's Sonnet 18, the speaker says, 'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? / Thou art more lovely and more temperate: / Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, / And summer's lease hath all too short a date; / Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, / And often is his gold complexion dimm'd; / And every fair from fair sometime declines, / But winter's face, from winter, never fades.', here the poet is comparing his beloved to the all-encompassing beauty of summer.

How to Memorize "encompassing"

1. visualize
   

   - Imagine a circle or a sphere that surrounds and includes everything within it.

2. associate
   

   - Think of the word 'embrace' and remember that 'encompassing' means to surround and include in the same way.

3. mnemonics
   

   - Remember the phrase 'encompasses all' to help remember the meaning of the word.

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