About The Word Generality

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Generality

Generality Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Generality?
[n] the quality of being general or widespread or having general applicability
[n] an idea having general application; "he spoke in broad generalities" Synonyms | Synonyms for Generality: generalisation | generalization Related Terms | Find terms related to Generality: abstract | abstraction | abstractions | amorphousness | average | average man | averageness | balance | best part | better part | blobbiness | blurriness | body | broadness | bulk | center | common man | common run | commonness | commonplaceness | currency | disorder | essence | Everyman | everywoman | fogginess | fuzziness | generalization | girl next door | gist | golden mean | gravamen | happy medium | haziness | homme moyen sensuel | ill-definedness | imprecision | inaccuracy | inchoateness | incoherence | indecisiveness | indefinableness | indefiniteness | indeterminateness | indistinctness | inexactness | juste-milieu | laws | laxity | looseness | main body | major part | majority | mass | mean | meat | median | mediocrity | medium | middle | middle course | middle ground | middle point | middle position | middle state | middle-of-the-road | midpoint | mistiness | most | norm | normal | obscuration | obscurity | ordinariness | ordinary Joe | ordinary run | par | plurality | prevalence | principles | Public | ruck | rule | run | shapelessness | substance | sweeping statement | sweepingness | thrust | unclearness | universality | usualness | vague notion | vagueness | via media See Also | catholicity | commonality | commonness | idea | pervasiveness | prevalence | principle | quality | rule | thought | totality | universality Generality In Webster's Dictionary \Gen`er*al"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Generalities}. [L.
generalitas: cf. F. g['e]n['e]ralit['e]. Cf. {Generalty}.]
1. The state of being general; the quality of including
species or particulars. --Hooker.
2. That which is general; that which lacks specificalness,
practicalness, or application; a general or vague
statement or phrase.
Let us descend from generalities to particulars.
--Landor.
The glittering and sounding generalities of natural
right which make up the Declaration of Independence.
--R. Choate.
3. The main body; the bulk; the greatest part; as, the
generality of a nation, or of mankind.
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