generality
Etymology
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Etymology
From Middle English generalite, from Middle French generalité.
Pronunciation- (British) IPA: /ˌd͡ʒɛn.əˈɹæl.ɪ.ti/
- (America, Canada) IPA: /ˌd͡ʒɛn.əˈɹæl.ə.ti/, [ˌd͡ʒɛn.əˈɹæl.ə.ɾi]
- (Australia) IPA: /ˌd͡ʒen.əˈɹæl.ə.ti/, [ˌd͡ʒen.əˈɹæl.ə.ɾi]
generality
- (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.
- (quality of being general) oftenness; see also Thesaurus:commonness
- Russian: обобще́ние
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