How to pronounce “encompassment”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• The act of surrounding, or the state of being surrounded.
• Complete inclusion, with no outliers.
• (anthropology, sociology) A hierarchical structure such that when two elements of a whole are recognized as opposites, one of them is considered hierarchically superior, while the other is subordinated to the whole.

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