generality
English
Alternative forms
- generalty (archaic)
Etymology
From Middle English generalite, from Middle French generalité.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˌd͡ʒɛn.əˈɹæl.ɪ.ti/
- (US, Canada) IPA(key): /ˌd͡ʒɛn.əˈɹæl.ə.ti/, [ˌd͡ʒɛn.əˈɹæl.ə.ɾi]
Audio (US) (file)
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˌd͡ʒen.əˈɹæl.ə.ti/, [ˌd͡ʒen.əˈɹæl.ə.ɾi]
- Rhymes: -ælɪti
Noun
generality (countable and uncountable, plural generalities)
- (uncountable) The quality of being general.
- (uncountable) The population in general.
- 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Asking for an Invitation”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 25:
- "You must not come to me," answered her listener, "for a defence of society; I have long since loathed its bitterness as much as I despise its baseness. You cannot know the miserably mean motives that actuate the generality; but the trifles so sought give their own narrowness to the mind."
- (countable) A generalization.
- He was very vague, speaking only in generalities.
Synonyms
- (quality of being general): oftenness; see also Thesaurus:commonness
Translations
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generalization
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Further reading
- “generality”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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