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There's something about Southern women that is so unique yet so universal. Strong southern women are allowed to be soft and feminine and have a sense of humor. But what I love about Southern women in particular is their universality.
Connie Britton

Meaning of "universality" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF UNIVERSALITY

universality  [ˌjuːnɪvɜːˈsælɪtɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF UNIVERSALITY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Universality 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 UNIVERSALITY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Universality

Universality may refer to: ▪ Universality ▪ Universality, meaning presence in all places and all times ▪ Universality principle, a property of systems that can be modeled by random matrices It may also refer to several concepts that are also known as "universality" ▪ Background independence, a concept of universality in physical science ▪ Turing-complete, a concept of universality in computation ▪ Universal property, a mathematical concept ▪ Universal jurisdiction, in international law...

Definition of universality in the English dictionary

The definition of universality in the dictionary is the state or quality of being universal.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH UNIVERSALITY


commensality
ˌkɒmɛnˈsælɪtɪ
confidentiality
ˌkɒnfɪdenʃɪˈælɪtɪ
functionality
ˌfʌŋkʃənˈælɪtɪ
homosexuality
ˌhəʊməʊˌsɛksjʊˈælɪtɪ
hospitality
ˌhɒspɪˈtælɪtɪ
legality
lɪˈɡælɪtɪ
locality
ləʊˈkælɪtɪ
mentality
mɛnˈtælɪtɪ
morality
məˈrælɪtɪ
mortality
mɔːˈtælɪtɪ
municipality
mjuːˌnɪsɪˈpælɪtɪ
nationality
ˌnæʃəˈnælɪtɪ
originality
əˌrɪdʒɪˈnælɪtɪ
personality
ˌpɜːsəˈnælɪtɪ
plurality
plʊəˈrælɪtɪ
reality
rɪˈælɪtɪ
sexuality
ˌsɛksjʊˈælɪtɪ
speciality
ˌspɛʃɪˈælɪtɪ
spirituality
ˌspɪrɪtjʊˈælɪtɪ
vitality
vaɪˈtælɪtɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE UNIVERSALITY

universal joint
universal motor
Universal Product Code
universal quantifier
universal set
Universal Soul
Universal Spirit
universal suffrage
universal time
universalisability
universalisation
universalise
universalism
universalist
universalistic
universalizability
universalization
universalize
universally
universalness

WORDS THAT END LIKE UNIVERSALITY

ability
abnormality
air quality
augmented reality
brutality
duality
equality
fatality
generality
illegality
in reality
individuality
inequality
infant mortality
intertextuality
low-quality
modality
practicality
quality
sensuality
virtual reality

Synonyms and antonyms of universality in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «UNIVERSALITY»

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

Translation of «universality» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF UNIVERSALITY

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

Translator English - Chinese

普遍性
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

universalidad
570 millions of speakers

English

universality
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

सार्वभौमिकता
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

عالمية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

универсальность
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

universalidade
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বিশ্বজনীনতা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

universalité
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Universiti
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Universalität
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

普遍性
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

보편성
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Universitas
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

phổ quát
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பொதுமை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

सार्वत्रिकता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

genellik
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

universalità
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

powszechność
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

універсальність
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

universalitate
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

καθολικότητα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

universaliteit
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

universalitet
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

universalitet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of universality

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «UNIVERSALITY»

The term «universality» is quite widely used and occupies the 44.842 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «UNIVERSALITY» OVER TIME

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

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10 QUOTES WITH «UNIVERSALITY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word universality.
1
Theodor Adorno
An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.
2
Connie Britton
There's something about Southern women that is so unique yet so universal. Strong southern women are allowed to be soft and feminine and have a sense of humor. But what I love about Southern women in particular is their universality.
3
Angela Carter
The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.
4
Rene Cassin
The other salient characteristic of the Declaration is its universality: it applies to all human beings without any discrimination whatever; it also applies to all territories, whatever their economic or political regime.
5
John Cheever
For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty.
6
Ram Dass
I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth.
7
William A. Dembski
As a biblical inerrantist, I believe that what the Bible teaches is true and bow to the text, including its teaching about the Flood and its universality.
8
John Drinkwater
Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course.
9
Drew Gilpin Faust
For all its ubiquity and its universality, war offers the attraction of the extraordinary - the escape from the gray everyday, from the humdrum into higher things.
10
Jesse James Garrett
But despite the universality of URLs, we often forget that they're not just a handy way to address network resources. They're also valuable communication tools.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UNIVERSALITY»

Discover the use of universality in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to universality and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution
Explores the psychophysical and neurophysical determinants of cross-linguistic constraints on the shape of color lexicons.
Brent Berlin, 1991
2
Human Rights: Universality and Diversity
2.2. In the CRC.
Eva Brems, 2001
3
Culture Care Diversity and Universality: A Worldwide Nursing ...
The latest edition of Madeleine Leininger's book, Culture Care Diversity & Universality: A Worldwide Nursing Theory, Second Edition remains the primary and most comprehensive source on the Culture Care Theory with the Sunrise Enabler and ...
Madeleine M. Leininger, Marilyn R. McFarland, 2006
4
Contingency, Hegemony, Universality: Contemporary Dialogues ...
Through a series of exchanges on the value of the Hegelian and Lacanian legacies, the dilemmas of multiculturalism, and the political challenges of a global economy, Butler, Laclau, and ÄiPek lend fresh significance to the key ...
Judith Butler, Ernesto Laclau, Slavoj Žižek, 2000
5
Towards Universality: Le Corbusier, Mies and De Stijl
A thorough examination of the work and philosophical foundations of Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe and De Stijl, considering how a study of one can illuminate the works of the others.
Richard Padovan, 2013
6
Metaphor in Culture: Universality and Variation
In this book, Zoltán Kövecses proposes a new theory of metaphor variation. First, he identifies the major dimension of metaphor variation, that is, those social and cultural boundaries that signal discontinuities in human experience.
Zoltán Kövecses, 2005
7
Rabindranath Tagore: Universality and Tradition
This collection provides a lucid introduction for those unfamiliar with Tagore's work, while simultaneously presenting important new scholarship and novel interpretation. Rabindranath Tagore is considered the greatest modem writer of India.
Patrick Colm Hogan, Lalita Pandit, 2003
8
Universality and the Liar: An Essay on Truth and the ...
This book is about one of the most baffling of all paradoxes--the famous Liar paradox.
Keith Simmons, 1993
9
Universality, Ethics and International Relations: A ...
This text introduces students to the key debates about ethics in international relations theory.
Véronique Pin-Fat, 2009
10
Random Matrix Theory: Invariant Ensembles and Universality
"This book features a unified derivation of the mathematical theory of the three classical types of invariant random matrix ensembles-orthogonal, unitary, and symplectic.
Percy Deift, Dimitri Gioev, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «UNIVERSALITY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term universality is used in the context of the following news items.
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UN : Defending the universality of human rights - Priority #HRC29
All human rights are universal, indivisible, interdependent and interrelated (Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, paragraph 5). Yet, 67 years after the ... «FIDH, Jun 15»
2
India: Don't use environment as pretext to kick away poor's …
Don't use universality and shared responsibilities for the environment as pretexts to kick away the ladder of development for the poor or to avoid responsibility for ... «Deccan Herald, May 15»
3
Universality shown in visual search by fish and humans
Researchers have shown that the way fish perform visual searches resembles the way humans do and provides an important insight in to the way the visual ... «Jerusalem Post Israel News, Apr 15»
4
How Pep is shaping football's future and the real reason why …
On this week's Team 33, we were joined by Universality - The Blueprint for Soccer's New Era author Matthew Whitehouse, who argues that the game is moving ... «Newstalk 106-108 fm, Apr 15»
5
Study of interaction among three objects in peculiar resonant …
An exotic physical effect based on the attraction among three particles has a similar universality to that of common two-body interactions, Yusuke Horinouchi ... «Phys.Org, Mar 15»
6
An affordable step toward true universality
Beyond its dwindling but still politically powerful defenders, no one really still buys the apophthegm about Canada's single-payer health-care system being ... «The Globe and Mail, Mar 15»
7
Balancing quality and universality
The first view implies the intellectuality and universality of a university, while the second emphasises its organic and integrated nature. The first view is important ... «The Star Online, Mar 15»
8
Threat to the UN's universality
Perhaps the greatest asset of the United Nations today, deeply flawed as its working and structure is in many ways, is the universality of its membership. It is the ... «The News International, Feb 15»
9
The universality of evil
In 1916, Jesse Washington was accused of rape and murder and swiftly convicted. Washington was black and the woman was white, and the location was ... «Washington Post, Feb 15»
10
The Universality Of Wisdom
The structure of Sefer Shemot, chapters 18-20, is little short of astonishing. In 19-20, we read of the moment in which the Israelites received their constitution as a ... «The Jewish Press, Feb 15»

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