encompassment

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: en=com=pass=ment

CIDE DICTIONARY

encompassment, n. 

 The act of surrounding, or the state of being surrounded; circumvention.  [1913 Webster]
"By this encompassment and drift of question."  [1913 Webster]

ROGET THESAURUS

encompassment

Circumjacence

N circumjacence, circumambience, environment, encompassment, atmosphere, medium, surroundings, outpost, border, girdle, outskirts, boulebards, suburbs, purlieus, precincts, faubourgs, environs, entourage, banlieue, neighborhood, vicinage, vicinity, circumjacent, circumambient, circumfluent, ambient, surrounding, circumferential, suburban, around, about, without, on every side, on all sides, right and left, all round, round about.