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generalities

generalities is the plural of generality.

Meaning of generality

Noun

generality (countable and uncountable, plural generalities)

  1. (uncountable) The quality of being general.
    Synonyms:
    oftenness
  2. (uncountable) The population in general.
    • "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."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
  3. (countable) A generalization.
    • He was very vague, speaking only in generalities.

Phrases with generalities

Questions about generalities

What is generalities the plural of?
Generalities is the plural of generality.

Words near generalities in the dictionary

  1. generalissimoships
  2. generalissimus
  3. generalist
  4. generalistic
  5. generalists
  6. generalities
  7. generality
  8. generalizabilities
  9. generalizability
  10. generalizable
  11. generalizablity

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