Meanings
alternative co-extensive
- not comparableHaving the same spatial limits or boundaries; sharing the same area.
The city and county of San Francisco are coextensive.
1 more example
And then there are the catch-all provisions: rules that allow police to stop drivers for conduct that complies with all the rules on the books, but that officers consider "imprudent" or "unreasonable" under the circumstances, or that describe the offense in language so broad as to make a vioation virtually coextensive with the officer's unreviewable personal judgment.
2019, Malcolm Gladwell, Talking to StrangersSynonyms: coterminous
- not comparableOccurring over the same period of time; contemporaneous.
His life is almost co-extensive with one of the most disastrous periods in Roman history.
1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.30 - not comparablehuman sciencesHaving the same extension—the object or set of objects to which a term refers.
Coextensive expressions with different intensions cannot in general be substituted for one another within an expression e while preserving the extension of e (assuming that the extension of a declarative sentence is its truth value).
1995, Jaegwon Kim, Ernest Sosa, A Companion to Metaphysics
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveHaving the same spatial limits or boundaries; sharing the same area.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivebeing of equal extent or scope or duration
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*ḱe?
- Proto-Indo-European*ḱóm
- Proto-Italic*kom
- Proto-Italic*kom-
- Latincon-
- Latinco-
- Englishco-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁éǵʰ
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁éǵʰs
- Proto-Italic*eks
- Latinex
- Latinex-
- Proto-Indo-European*ten-
- Proto-Indo-European*tend-
- Proto-Indo-European*téndeti
- Proto-Italic*tendō
- Latintendō
- Latinextendō
- Latinextēnsus
- Late Latinextensīvus
- Middle Englishextensive
- Englishextensive
- Englishcoextensive
Cite this entry
coextensive. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/coextensive
“coextensive.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/coextensive. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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