Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Universality.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The quality or state of being universal; universality.

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  • noun The quality or state of being universal; universality.

Etymologies

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universal +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • I guess I don't believe in the universalness of tales.

    gillpolack: Laura gave me five words. I love this m gillpolack 2009

  • I guess I don't believe in the universalness of tales.

    Even in a little thing gillpolack 2009

  • What makes concluding common ancestry based upon an inability to explain the universalness of DNA, different from concluding god did it based on an ability to explain, well, anything?

    Dembski and Common Descent - The Panda's Thumb 2007

  • * Romania - Twee group of six guys singing in six languages about the universalness of love.

    Archive 2007-05-01 C N Heidelberg 2007

  • It is such comprehensiveness, as contrasted with inclusion of a few factors and disregard for the rest, that we call higher approximation to realness -- or universalness.

    The Book of the Damned Charles Fort

  • Universal -- so all attempted positiveness that seems to satisfy in the aspects of formality and regularity, sooner or later disqualifies in the aspect of wideness or universalness.

    The Book of the Damned Charles Fort

  • Now if a good man cannot do good things with that wholeness and oneness of soul, with that oneness and universalness of mind, as

    Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 John Bunyan 1658

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