It is a set of events that, taken together, include all possible outcomes.
Chat with our AI personalities
A set of events is said to be exhaustive if, between them, they cover all possible outcomes.
1.
Mutually exclusive. The two events can also be exhaustive if there is no other possibility. For example, if you believe in a state of spiritual limbo, then there is a third possible outcome. In that case death and life are no longer exhaustive.
Any two events in which one cannot happen without the other.
It is correct to say "such an exhausting day", and not 'Such an exhaustive day'.