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Definitions: Generality |
GeneralityNoun1. An idea having general application; "he spoke in broad generalities". 2. The quality of being general or widespread or having general applicability. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "generality" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1517. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Computing | The extent to which a language may be used for different purposes. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: GeneralitySynonyms: generalisation (n), generalization (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: particularity (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Generality | Noun: {opp. } generality, generalization; universality; catholicity, catholicism; miscellany, |
Mean | Noun: mean, average; median, mode; balance, medium, mediocrity, generality; golden mean; (mid-course); middle; compromise; middle course, middle state; neutrality. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Generality |
| English words defined with "generality": basic ♦ canonic, canonical, Canonical form ♦ Generalities, Generalty ♦ The common run, The run. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "generality": Boole-Bonferroni-Fréchet inequality ♦ My Favourite Toy Language ♦ Scobellum ♦ telegraph service, telegraphic service. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "generality": Generalty. (references) |
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| Author | Quotation |
Edmund Burke | We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation. |
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| "Generality" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Generality" is used about 290 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 290 | 17,096 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "generality": } generality ♦ the generality. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
generality | 4 |
generality glittering | 4 |
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| Language | Translations for "generality"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaan | algemeenheid (universality). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | shumica, parim i përgjithshëm, përgjithësi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | عمومية, عموم شمول (commonness), الأغلبية, إعتبار عام, بصورة عامة (broadly, in general, largely). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | голяма част, всеобщност, общоприложимост, общ характер (impersonality), неопределеност (ambiguity), мнозинство (majority). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 普通性 (Generalities). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | všeobecnost. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | generalitet (portability, transferability). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | algemeenheid (universality). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | universaleco (universality), ĝeneraleco (universality). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | نکته کلی , عمومیت , اصل کلی (Theory), اظهارعمومی . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | yleiskäyttöisyys. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | généralité. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Frisian | algemienens (universality). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Allgemeingültigkeit (catholicity, universality). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | γενικότητα (generalisation, universality). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מכלול (complex, compound, ensemble, entirety, integrity, perfection, splendor, totality, wholeness), כלליות, כללות, "כלל" (generalization, inclusion, incorporation), סתמיות (indefiniteness, uncertainty, vagueness), סתם (just like that, just pretending, mere, merely, vagueness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | túlnyomó többség, általánosság (ordinariness, universality). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | generalit (full name). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 一般性 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | いっぱ"せい. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | keisht chadjin, cadjinys (colloquialism, commonness, normality), cadjinaght (currency). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eneralitygay generalidade (commonplace). (various references) generalitate, universalitate (universality), mulţime (accumulation, army, array, body, boodle, cloud, cluster, concourse, crowd, dozen, drove, fifty, flock, forest, heap, herd, hive, host, huddle, lashing, manifold, mass, mob, multitude, muster, number, Peck, pile, plenty, populace, press, quantity, rabble, ream, shoal, sight, squash, stack, swarm, throng), majoritate (body, majority, plurality), corp al generalilor. (various references) всеобщность, неопределенность (equivocation, incertitude, indeterminacy, indetermination, laxity, limbo, overidentification, pendency, suspense, uncertainty, vagueness), большинство (feck, major, majority, most of, the better part, the many). (various references) uopštenost (generality: the generality), opštost. (various references) generalidad (commonalty). (various references) allmängiltighet (universal applicability). (various references) กฎเก"ฑ์ทั่วไป. (various references) genellik (universality), genel konu, yaygınlık (currency, diffusiveness, prevalence, universality), belirsizlik (ambiguity, dark, doubtfulness, dreaminess, dreariness, drift, dubiousness, equivocalness, fogginess, fuzziness, gloom, haze, haziness, if, incalculability, indefiniteness, indistinctness, laxity, laxness, limbo, suspense, troubled waters, twilight world, twilight zone, uncertainty, vagueness), çoğunluk (bulk, majority, plurality, predominance, preponderance, ruck, run, the crowd). (various references) твердження загального характеру, невизначеність (incertitude, looseness), непевність (nebulosity), загальність (catholicity, omneity), придатність для всього. (various references) tính tổng quát, tính đại cương thôi nói chung chung m đi v o chi tiết cụ thể tính phổ biến tính mập mờ phần lớn, phần đông (majority, plurality), nguyên tắc chung chung, cái chung chung, đa số (most). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Generality" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: generali, generalistic, generaliter, generallity, genitality. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "generality" (pronounced je'nera"lutē) |
| 6 | -er a" l u t ē | immorality, liberality, morality, plurality. |
| 5 | -a" l u t ē | abnormality, actuality, banality, bestiality, bisexuality, brutality, causality, centrality, collegiality, commonality, conditionality, confidentiality, congeniality, constitutionality, criminality, criticality, cyclicality, dimensionality, duality, eventuality, extraterritoriality, fatality, finality, formality, frugality, functionality, geniality, heterosexuality, homosexuality, hospitality, illegality, immortality, impartiality, impersonality, individuality, informality, instrumentality, irrationality, legality, lethality, locality, materiality, mentality, modality, mortality, municipality, musicality, mutuality, nationality, neutrality, normality, originality, partiality, personality, practicality, principality, proportionality, punctuality, rationality, reality, sensuality, sentimentality, sexuality, speciality, spirituality, technicality, theatricality, tonality, totality, triviality, universality, unreality, venality, vitality. |
| 4 | -l u t ē | ability, acceptability, accessibility, accountability, adaptability, admissibility, advisability, affordability, agility, amiability, applicability, availability, believability, capability, civility, comparability, compatibility, comprehensibility, convertibility, credibility, credulity, culpability, debility, deductibility, deniability, dependability, desirability, disability, docility, ductility, durability, electability, eligibility, enforceability, equality, facility, fallibility, feasibility, fertility, fidelity, flammability, flexibility, fragility, frivolity, futility, gentility, gullibility, hostility, humility, immobility, impossibility, inability, inaccessibility, incivility, incompatibility, incredulity, indestructibility, inequality, inevitability, infallibility, infertility, infidelity, inflexibility, instability, invincibility, invisibility, invulnerability, irresponsibility, irritability, legibility, liability, malleability, maneuverability, marketability, miscibility, mobility, motility, nobility, nonutility, palatability, permeability, plausibility, polity, portability, possibility, predictability, probability, profitability, quality, readability, reliability, respectability, responsibility, seasonality, senility, sensibility, stability, sterility, suitability, survivability, susceptibility, sustainability, tranquility, transferability, unavailability, unpredictability, unreliability, utility, variability, versatility, viability, virility, visibility, volatility, vulnerability. |
| 3 | -u t ē | absurdity, acidity, activity, acuity, adversity, affinity, aggressivity, alacrity, alkalinity, ambiguity, amenity, amity, analyticity, animosity, annuity, anonymity, antiquity, anxiety, atrocity, audacity, austerity, authenticity, authority, barbarity, biodiversity, brevity, calamity, capacity, captivity, cavity, celebrity, charity, chastity, clarity, commodity, community, complexity, complicity, conductivity, conformity, congruity, connectivity, continuity, creativity, crotchety, curiosity, deformity, deity, density, depravity, deputy, dexterity, dignity, discontinuity, disparity, dissimilarity, disunity, diversity, divinity, domesticity, duplicity, eccentricity, elasticity, electricity, enmity, enormity, entity, equanimity, equity, eternity, ethnicity, exclusivity, expressivity, extremity, falsity, familiarity, Felicity, femininity, ferocity, festivity, fluidity, fraternity, generosity, gratuity, gravity, heredity, heterogeneity, hilarity, homogeneity, humanity, humidity, hyperactivity, hypersensitivity, identity, illiquidity, immaturity, immunity, impropriety, impunity, impurity, inactivity, incapacity, incongruity, indemnity, indignity, inequity, inferiority, infinity, infirmity, ingenuity, inhumanity, insanity, insecurity, insensitivity, insularity, integrity, intensity, irregularity, laity, laxity, levity, liquidity, lividity, longevity, majority, masculinity, maternity, maturity, mediocrity, mendacity, minority, modernity, monstrosity, morbidity, multiplicity, nativity, necessity, negativity, Nonconformity, nonentity, notoriety, nudity, obesity, objectivity, obscenity, obscurity, oddity, opacity, opportunity, overcapacity, oversensitivity, parity, particularity, passivity, paternity, paucity, peculiarity, perpetuity, perplexity, perversity, piety, polarity, pomposity, popularity, posterity, priority, probity, proclivity, productivity, profanity, progressivity, promiscuity, propensity, propriety, prosperity, proximity, publicity, purity, quantity, radioactivity, rapidity, rarity, reactivity, receptivity, reciprocity, reflexivity, regularity, relativity, religiosity, retroactivity, rickety, rigidity, salinity, sanctity, sanity, scarcity, security, selectivity, seniority, sensitivity, serendipity, serenity, severity, similarity, simplicity, sincerity, sobriety, society, solemnity, solidarity, solidity, sorority, specificity, spontaneity, stupidity, subjectivity, superconductivity, superfluidity, superiority, supermajority, surety, temerity, tenacity, timidity, toxicity, Trinity, turbidity, ubiquity, unanimity, unfamiliarity, uniformity, unity, university, unpopularity, uppity, validity, vanity, variety, varsity, velocity, velvety, veracity, Verity, vicinity, virginity, virtuosity, viscosity, voracity, vulgarity. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-g-i-l-n-r-t-y" | |
-2 letters: alerting, algerine, altering, elaterin, entailer, entirely, galenite, gelatine, gratinee, integral, interage, interlay, layering, legatine, legerity, lientery, regality, regental, relating, relaying, tanglier, treenail, triangle, yearling. | |
-3 letters: agentry, aliener, aligner, angerly, angrily, arenite, atelier, atingle, eagerly, egalite, elating, elegant, engrail, enlarge, enteral, eternal, gelatin, general, genital, gentile, gentler, gleaner, granite, grantee, gratine, greaten, greatly, greenly, inertly, ingrate, inlayer, integer, irately, latrine, leering, lineage, lineate, nargile, negater, ratline, reagent, realign, reality, reeling, reginae, reginal, reliant, relying, retinae, retinal, retying, riantly, ringlet, tangier, tangler, tearily, tearing, teleran, tingler, trainee, treeing, trenail, yealing. | |
-4 letters: aerily, aiglet, aigret, aliner, anergy, angler, antler, argent, argyle, artily, eaglet, earing, eatery, eating, eerily, elater, elegit, elytra, energy, engirt, enrage, entail, entera, entire, ergate, eyeing, gaiety, gainer, gainly, gaiter, galere, gantry, garnet, gelant, gelate, gelati, genera, genial, gentil, gentle, gently, gentry, gerent, glaire, glairy, gleety, gnarly, grainy, gratin, greeny, gyrate, gyrene, ingate, larine, lateen, laying, leaner, learnt, legate, lenity, lierne, ligate, linage, linear, linger, linter, litany, lyrate, nailer, nearly, neater, neatly, negate, nitery, ratine, rating, ratlin, raying, reagin, realty, regain, regale, regent, regilt, regina, reglet, regnal, relate, relent, reline, renail, rental, retail, retain, retial, retile, retina, retine, tailer, tangle, tangly, taring, teeing, telega, tenail, teniae, tergal, tineal, tingle, tingly, triage, triene, trigly, trinal, trying, tyring, yeelin. | |
-5 letters: aerie, agene, agent, agile, aglee, aglet, agley, agree, alert, algin, alien, align, aline, alter, anele, angel, anger, angle, angry, anile, antre, arete, argil, argle, ariel, artel, eager, eagle, eagre, early, eaten, eater, egret, elain, elate, elegy, elint, elite, enate, enter, entia, entry, eying, eyrie, gaily, garni, gayer, genet, genie, genre, giant, girly, glair, glare, glary, glean, gleet, glint, gnarl, grail, grain, grant, grate, great, green, greet, gyral, inert, ingle, inlay, inlet, inter, irate, lager, laity, laree, large, laten, later, layer, leant, learn, leary, leery, leger, legit, liane, liang, liege, ligan, liger, liner, liney, linga, lingy, linty, liter, litre, lyart, lying, niter, nitre, ragee, rainy, ranee, range, rangy, ratel, regal, regna, reign, relay, relet, relit, renal, renig, rente, retag, retia, retie, riant, riley, riyal, taler, tangy, targe, teary, teeny, telae, telia, tenge, tenia, terai, terga, terne, tiger, tiler, tinea, tinge, tragi, trail, train, treen, trial, trine, tying, yager, yearn, yenta, yente. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-g-i-l-n-r-t-y" | |
+1 letter: glycerinate. | |
+2 letters: entreatingly, glycerinated, glycerinates, hearteningly. | |
+3 letters: allergenicity, deprecatingly, energetically, everlastingly, interlayering, nearsightedly, penetratingly, threateningly. | |
+4 letters: acceleratingly, depreciatingly, egocentrically, entertainingly, estrogenically, exasperatingly, generationally, geocentrically, heartrendingly, laryngectomies. | |
+5 letters: argumentatively, dishearteningly, heartbreakingly, interchangeably, interrogatively, laryngectomized, paragenetically. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 65 6E 65 72 61 6C 69 74 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--. . -. . .-. .- .-.. .. - -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01100101 01101110 01100101 01110010 01100001 01101100 01101001 01110100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G e n e r a l i t y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0065 006E 0065 0072 0061 006C 0069 0074 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)41718071846778758691 |
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