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Hardell Posted 15 years ago
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Comprehen...
Hi
What's the difference between "Comprehensibility" and "Comprehensibleness"
And this is quite tricky. "Comprehensible" means "Understandable", and "Comprehensive" is an high school and moreover means something like "Complete", right?
Then... "Comprehensively" means "Completely", "Comprehensiveness" means "Completness", right?
(Damn
it's too difficult to read and even more difficult to write)
Are those words(Comprehensiveness and its derivates) used commonly? Perhaps in extremely formal letters?
Thanks in advance.
What's the difference between "Comprehensibility" and "Comprehensibleness"
And this is quite tricky. "Comprehensible" means "Understandable", and "Comprehensive" is an high school and moreover means something like "Complete", right?
Then... "Comprehensively" means "Completely", "Comprehensiveness" means "Completness", right?
(Damn
it's too difficult to read and even more difficult to write)Are those words(Comprehensiveness and its derivates) used commonly? Perhaps in extremely formal letters?
Thanks in advance.
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These are words dervied from a Latin root word. The closest English word to the original Latin root is: prehensile - it describes the tail of a monkey that can be used to grab and hold onto branches. The idea of grabbing or clasping in in the root word.
- These are words dervied from a Latin root word.
- The closest English word to the original Latin root is: prehensile - it describes the tail of a monkey that can be used to grab and hold onto branches.
- The idea of grabbing or clasping in in the root word.
- Then we have prefixes and suffixes: com + prehens + ible - (adjective) capable of being grabbed com pletely.
- This has become a metaphor which describes something that can be grasped by the mind.
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These are words dervied from a Latin root word.
The closest English word to the original Latin root is:
prehensile - it describes the tail of a monkey that can be used to grab and hold onto branches. The idea of grabbing or clasping in in the root word.
Then we have prefixes and suffixes:
com + prehens + ible - (adjective) capable of being grabbed completely. This
The closest English word to the original Latin root is:
prehensile - it describes the tail of a monkey that can be used to grab and hold onto branches. The idea of grabbing or clasping in in the root word.
Then we have prefixes and suffixes:
com + prehens + ible - (adjective) capable of being grabbed completely. This
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