Definitions: (1) having an extensive intellectual range with understanding; (2) able to comprehend and to perceive the relationships of a group of facts or ideas; enjoying a large mental extent; (3) able to grasp the nature, significance, scope, or implication of ideas; covering thoughts broadly
Quote: It is the harmony of the diverse parts, their symmetry, their happy balance; in a word it is all that introduces order, all that gives unity, that permits us to see clearly and to comprehend at once both the ensemble and the details. — Jules Henri Poincare (1854-1912) French mathematician