Extensivebroad

Extensivebroad is an adjective used to describe systems, datasets, policies, or phenomena that combine wide scope with large scale. It signals coverage that spans multiple domains or spaces, such as geographic, temporal, or organizational breadth, while also exhibiting substantial depth or magnitude within each domain. The term is a compound of extensive and broad and has appeared in interdisciplinary discourse primarily in the 2010s among scholarly and technical writings.

In practice, an extensivebroad analysis seeks data and insights that are both geographically or temporally expansive and richly contextual within multiple domains. For example, a public health study that maps disease incidence across many regions and countries and analyzes underlying social determinants across languages and cultures could be described as extensivebroad. In policy discussions, extensivebroad strategies aim to achieve impact at scale while addressing diverse contexts, populations, and needs.

Critics argue that extensivebroad is vague and overlaps with established terms such as comprehensive, wide-ranging, or large-scale. Proponents contend that the label helps emphasize the combination of breadth and depth in complex systems, where both the extent of coverage and the complexity of within-domain analysis matter.

See also: extensive; broad; large-scale; cross-domain; multi-dimensional.