Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The state or quality of being general.
- n. An observation or principle having general application; a generalization.
- n. An imprecise or vague statement or idea.
- n. The greater portion or number; the majority.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The state or condition of being general, in any of the senses of that word.
- n. Something that is general, as a general statement or principle; especially, a saying of a general and vague nature.
- n. The main body; the bulk; the greatest part; specifically, the majority of people; the multitude; the commons.
- n. Formerly, in France, a territorial division for the collection of taxes; a taxing district.
Wiktionary
- n. The quality of being general.
- n. A generalization.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The state of being general; the quality of including species or particulars.
- n. That which is general; that which lacks specificalness, practicalness, or application; a general or vague statement or phrase.
- n. The main body; the bulk; the greatest part.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the quality of being general or widespread or having general applicability
- n. an idea or conclusion having general application
Examples
“This generality is all to say that there is a range of possible relationships between markets and states in time and space that oscillate between complimentary and oppositional polarities.”
Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier
“That's why Buchanan suggested allowing states to determine their own formula for the flat tax / demogrant idea (which he calls the generality principle).”
“This generality is not present in other server-side scripting systems, where the inputs would have to be literal numeric values.”
Wolfram Blog : Interactive Pythagoras Trees with webMathematica 3
“Put another way, generality is a way of mentally guarding against your own subjectivity.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Jonathan Rauch on David Frum on the Conservative Movement
“The argument for moving to a higher level of generality is often framed in terms of an ad hominem rather than a real argument.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Jonathan Rauch on David Frum on the Conservative Movement
“Whether my generality is true is determined by how effectively it matches my perceptions of reality.”
Matthew Yglesias » DeMint: The Richest 0.7 Percent of the Population is “Lots of People”
“Seriously, a brave post and I agree that your generality is what makes your blog good.”
“You hide in generality like war is nether good or bad.”
Aims of Democrats Reach Beyond the Oval Office - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
“Not specifically, but in generality, as I prayed that the names of the dead were unfamiliar.”
“But both accounts suggest how the very terms needed to enunciate that singularity are shadowed by a certain generality, such that the voice is in some sense always more than that of a particular I, that is,”
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