exhaustiveness
Exhaustiveness is the quality of being exhaustive: the extent to which something covers all possible cases, elements, or aspects of a domain. A treatment or analysis described as exhaustive aims to be complete, leaving no relevant item unconsidered. In practice, achieving true exhaustiveness often collides with limits on time, resources, or complexity, so professionals distinguish between ideal exhaustiveness and practical sufficiency.
In logic and mathematics, exhaustiveness refers to a proof or argument that considers every possible case and
In statistics, data collection, and survey design, an exhaustive list of categories seeks to classify responses
Practical limits include combinatorial explosion, ambiguous or unknown domains, and the possibility that some cases cannot