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As soon as there is language, generality has entered the scene.
Jacques Derrida

Meaning of "generality" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF GENERALITY

generality  [ˌdʒɛnəˈrælɪtɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF GENERALITY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Generality is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES GENERALITY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of generality in the English dictionary

The first definition of generality in the dictionary is a principle or observation having general application, esp when imprecise or unable to be proved. Other definition of generality is the state or quality of being general. Generality is also the majority.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH GENERALITY


amorality
ˌeɪməˈrælɪtɪ
balmorality
ˌbælməˈrælɪtɪ
chirality
kaɪˈrælɪtɪ
collaterality
kəlætəˈrælɪtɪ
corporality
ˌkɔːpəˈrælɪtɪ
gutturality
ˌɡʌtəˈrælɪtɪ
immorality
ˌɪməˈrælɪtɪ
laterality
ˌlætəˈrælɪtɪ
liberality
ˌlɪbəˈrælɪtɪ
literality
ˌlɪtəˈrælɪtɪ
literalness
ˌlɪtəˈrælɪtɪ
morality
məˈrælɪtɪ
orality
ɔːˈrælɪtɪ
peripherality
pəˌrɪfəˈrælɪtɪ
plurality
plʊəˈrælɪtɪ
preternaturality
ˌpriːtəˌnætʃəˈrælɪtɪ
rurality
rʊəˈrælɪtɪ
spirality
spaɪəˈrælɪtɪ
temporality
ˌtɛmpəˈrælɪtɪ
unmorality
ˌʌnməˈrælɪtɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE GENERALITY

general-purpose
generalate
generalcy
generalia
generalisable
generalise
generaliser
generalism
generalissimo
generalist
generalities
generalizable
generalization
generalize
generalized
generalized other
generalizer
generally
generalness
generalship

WORDS THAT END LIKE GENERALITY

ability
air quality
augmented reality
confidentiality
equality
functionality
homosexuality
hospitality
in reality
inequality
locality
mortality
municipality
nationality
originality
personality
quality
reality
sexuality
speciality
spirituality

Synonyms and antonyms of generality in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «GENERALITY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «generality» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of generality

Translation of «generality» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF GENERALITY

Find out the translation of generality to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of generality from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «generality» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

一般性
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

generalidad
570 millions of speakers

English

generality
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

व्यापकता
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

عمومية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

общность
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

generalidade
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

জনসাধারণ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

généralité
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Umum
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Allgemeinheit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

一般性
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

일반성
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Umum
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

phổ thông
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பொதுப்படைத்தன்மை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

सर्वसाधारणता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

genellik
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

generalità
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

ogólność
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

спільність
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

generalitate
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

γενικότητα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

algemeenheid
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

genera
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

generalitet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of generality

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «GENERALITY»

The term «generality» is quite widely used and occupies the 33.872 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «GENERALITY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «generality» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «generality» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about generality

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10 QUOTES WITH «GENERALITY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word generality.
1
George Ade
For parlor use, the vague generality is a life saver.
2
E. T. Bell
Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness.
3
Thomas R. Cech
Because all of biology is connected, one can often make a breakthrough with an organism that exaggerates a particular phenomenon, and later explore the generality.
4
Richard Courant
Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analysis and construction, generality and individuality.
5
Jacques Derrida
As soon as there is language, generality has entered the scene.
6
Augustus Hare
Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them.
7
David Hilbert
The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality.
8
Wilfred Owen
I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness.
9
Charles Sanders Peirce
Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure nothing.
10
Thomas Sydenham
The generality have considered that disease is but a confused and disordered effort in Nature, thrown down from her proper state, and defending herself in vain.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GENERALITY»

Discover the use of generality in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to generality and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Absolute Generality
The volume represents a variety of approaches to the problem, with some of the contributions arguing for the possibility of all-inclusive quantification and some of them arguing against it.
Agustín Rayo, Gabriel Uzquiano, 2006
2
The Generality of Deviance
In short, this book makes a convincing case that it is a waste of intellectual effort and public funds to treat different forms of crime and deviant behavior as distinct problems.
Travis Hirschi, Michael R. Gottfredson
3
Generality and Exception: A Study in the Semantics of Exceptives
This dissertation is a study in the semantics of exceptive constructions in English.
Iván García Álvarez, 2008
4
A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting
"WITHOUT LIMITING THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING" 9.62 The phrase without limiting the generality of the foregoing serves a purpose comparable to that of including without limitation (see 9.6): drafters use it to prevent the specific ...
Kenneth A. Adams, 2004
5
Action and Generality
On the positive account defended here, an action is a certain sort of temporally-ordered system of ends and means. The claim is that the agent herself must think of what she is doing as being such a system---if, indeed, it is one.
Anton Ford, 2008
6
Sacrifice in the Modern World: On the Particularity and ...
Rather than condemning the Nazi appeal to sacrifice itself, this book looks at the particular ways in which sacrifice was distributed and structured within that society.
David Pan, 2012
7
Sources of Law and Legislation
C. Generality As a Distinct Formal Attribute of Rules 1. The Nature of Generality Generality is another attribute of rules. By generality, I mean the extent to which a law at inception applies by its terms to more than one instance within any of its ...
International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy. World Congress, Elspeth Attwooll, Rex Martin, 1998
8
Knowledge and Liberation: Tibetan Buddhist Epistemology in ...
the term-generality which appears to a thought consciousness when for example a person who has never been to India hears the word 'India' and (2) a meaning- generality that appears when someone who has visited India hears the same ...
Anne C. Klein, 1987
9
Up from Generality: How Inorganic Chemistry Finally Became a ...
Jay A. Labinger SpringerBriefs in Molecular Science Up from Generality, 2013 How Inorganic Chemistry Finally Became a Respectable Field _| 10.1007/978-3- 642-40120-6_6 © The Author(s) 2013 6. Conclusions Jay A. Labinger1 (1) ...
Jay A. Labinger, 2013
10
Experimental Ecology: Issues and Perspectives
Ecological. Experiments. Scale. Phenomenology. Mechanism. and. the. Illusion. of. Generality. ARTHUR E. DUNHAM & STEVEN l. BEAUPRE In attempting to understand the distribution and abundance of organisms. ecologists often seek ...
William J. Resetarits, Joseph Bernardo, 2001

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GENERALITY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term generality is used in the context of the following news items.
1
How to resolve states' inability to pay salaries- Hon. Bisi Yusuf | P.M. …
People should be their brothers' keeper. I am not against anything that would be of importance to the generality of Nigerians. Again, how would ... «P.M. News, Jul 15»
2
What happens when policy is made by corporations? Your privacy is …
This, more or less, is the level of generality in which these treaties are written: there's no definition of “essential”, let alone “security” or “interest”. «The Guardian, Jul 15»
3
OIG updated work plan includes new projects
DISCLAIMER: Because of the generality of this update, the information provided herein may not be applicable in all situations and should not ... «JD Supra, Jul 15»
4
Supreme Court gay marriage: What Kennedy's opinion should have …
The 14th Amendment's framers thus knew exactly what they were doing in pitching its text at the proper level of generality, condemning not just ... «Slate Magazine, Jul 15»
5
DubLi.com Adds 55 New Stores to Its US Shopping Mall
Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, words such as "may," "will," "to," "plan," "expect," "believe," "anticipate," "intend," "could," "would," ... «MarketWatch, Jul 15»
6
The Law And Business of Social Media - Status Updates, July 7th …
Because of the generality of this update, the information provided herein may not be applicable in all situations and should not be acted upon ... «Mondaq News Alerts, Jul 15»
7
Engage schools to invest in healthy lifestyles
This certainly does not disregard some exception to the contrary but only that it underscores the generality. So by this sharing, my hope is that ... «New Vision, Jul 15»
8
Court Of Appeals Affirms Rejection Of Claims Relating To Cat Bond
DISCLAIMER: Because of the generality of this update, the information provided herein may not be applicable in all situations and should not ... «JD Supra, Jul 15»
9
New Fair Housing Rule
Because of the generality of this update, the information provided herein may not be applicable in all situations and should not be acted upon ... «Mondaq News Alerts, Jul 15»
10
Rivers: Stakeholders Want Maritime Institute's Take Off
... issue of the Maritime Training Institute should not be politicised as its potentials and benefits to the generality of the public is unquantifiable. «The Tide, Jul 15»

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