all-encompassing

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   broad in scope or content

   I have an all-encompassing plan to reduce taxes on the majority of Americans.

2. 2
   adj

   Including everything; universal.

   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.

Etymology

From all- + encompassing.