Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The quality, fact, or condition of being universal.
- n. Universal inclusiveness in scope or range, especially great or unbounded versatility of the mind.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The state or character of being universal; unlimited application or extent.
- n. Unlimited adaptability; boundless versatility.
- n. The universe.
Wiktionary
- n. the property of being universal, common to all members of a class
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The quality or state of being universal; unlimited extension or application; generality; -- distinguished from
particularity
WordNet 3.0
- n. the quality of being universal; existing everywhere
Etymologies
- universal + -ity (Wiktionary)
Examples
“But our knowledge of this universality is the fruit of revelation: God has shown himself to us.”
“Their voices deserve to be heard, not the least by the very peoples in the sphere of Globalization 1.0 where their political and commercial elites have, in the name of universality, robbed them of their heritages and their futures.”
The Huffington Post: Nathan Gardels: Eric X. Li's Globalization 2.0
“In truth the idea of universality is already being rolled back.”
The Guardian: Benefit cuts and fairness: We're all in this together… or are we?
“And universality is cheaper to administer than a means-tested system.”
The Guardian: Benefit cuts and fairness: We're all in this together… or are we?
“OpenVolokh: Here point about universality is related to her concerns about class and shame.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Double Standard of Libertarian Paternalism
“Here point about universality is related to her concerns about class and shame.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Double Standard of Libertarian Paternalism
“Her concern about universality is completely logically consistent, given her premise.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Double Standard of Libertarian Paternalism
“The universality is a temporal aspect of representativeness, the frequency of cases (percentage of questions) when the opinion of a majority is represented.”
“Any clarity and universality is a byproduct of a master craftswoman.”
"I sit alone and I watch the clock; I breathe in on the tick and out on the tock"
“Its universality is now very clear and it can be used in B2C [business to consumer] and B2B [business to business] implementations equally well.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘universality’.
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CONT - general terms
additionality, audit trail, accounting standards, auditing standards, general audit obj..., a posteriori audit, a priori audit, above board, acceptable error ..., access rights, accountability, accountable entities and 1283 more...
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AGRI - CAP
basic prices, buying-in price, agricultural levies, agricultural prices, intervention / tr..., intervention stocks, intervention system, interprofessional..., area aid/payment, area-based subsidy, Community financing, direct assistance and 217 more...
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
(Persons' names, foreign and grammatical words have been eliminated, MWEs have been split up into individual words. Capitalization has been retained if r...conferral, stateless, person, voting, right, subsidiarity, Latvia, Malta, Slovenia, Lithuania, Finland, Estonia and 2614 more...
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EU Buzz - single words (1+2+3)
1. Strictly EU terms with special European meaning used only in the EU
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2. Keywords central to the understanding of the EU (people working for the EU are usually able to give thematic...acceleration, action, additionality, administrator, agenda, agricultural, agri-environmental, agriflation, agri-food, applicant, approach, assent and 1325 more...
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I do not like them, Sam I Am
Words that, for various reasons, I wish we could do without.
copacetic, gamut, horehound, lewd, membrane, metrics, mucous, mucus, negligee, nostril, odious, odor and 143 more...
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Jigsaw Codex
List? What list?
This is the list that makes up the world.cat, boustrophedon, syndetic, life, imbroglio, interlude, composition, investigation, cantankerous, him, sign, universality and 189 more...
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Things I adore
words, linguistics, etymology, philosophy, literature, research, poetry, science, cognition, solitude, nihilism, zen and 139 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for universality.
dontcry Ditto on "people" -- but oddly enough, I don't mind being called "dude" (except by my son, for some reason...) -- it makes me feel hip.
*wondering if it's still hip to say "hip"*
*hoping it's still "hip to be square"* Jul 21, 2008
reesetee Whereas I do not like being addressed as "people." Jul 21, 2008
mollusque And bookshelf and liked. Jul 13, 2008
yarb And I on commit. Jul 13, 2008
Prolagus Same sense of surprise I had on meteoropathy. Jul 13, 2008
bookhling I can not believe I am the first one to add this word. Come on, people! Jul 13, 2008