Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The character of being general.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The condition or quality of being general; frequency; commonness.
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- noun The quality of being
general , of having wideapplicability .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The strength of the old order is measured superficially by the extent of its control over the means of common livelihood and by the generalness of the satisfaction or discontent with which the masses receive its administration.
Bars and Shadows Ralph Chaplin 1924
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In this point the contrast is very noticeable between the local definiteness of the Jehovist legend, which lends it the character of the idyllic, and the vague generalness of the other.
Prolegomena Julius Wellhausen 1881
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For the generalness of the conception it never could attain to, as this includes under itself all triangles, whether right-angled, acute-angled, etc., whilst the image would always be limited to a single part of this sphere.
The Critique of Pure Reason Immanuel Kant 1764
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