Are these words interchangable in a context like in the followings?
"The festival is to encompass everything from music, theatre, and ballet to literature, cinema, and the visual arts."
"The kingdom Plantae encompasses water-dwelling red and green algae as well as terrestrial plants."
Best Answer
Encompass and comprise are not interchangeable. Encompass means "include comprehensively" and comprise means "make up, consists of". - Google.
In the first sentence, encompass means "the festival contains music, theater, ballet, etc". You could not use comprise here because "the festival isn't made up of ballet and literature".
In the second sentence, I wouldn't use comprise here either because "the kingdom Plantae contains" makes more sense than "the kingdom Plantae is made up of". However, I think it would be acceptable to use comprise in the second sentence.