generality

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Etymology

From Middle English generalite, from Middle French generalité.

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generality (countable and uncountable, plural generalities)

  1. (uncountable) The quality of being general.
  2. (uncountable) The population in general.
    • 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Asking for an Invitation”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. , volume III, London: Henry Colburn, , →OCLC, page 25:
      "You must not come to me," answered her listener, "for a defence of society; I have long since loathed its bitterness as much as I despise its baseness. You cannot know the miserably mean motives that actuate the generality; but the trifles so sought give their own narrowness to the mind."
  3. (countable) A generalization.
    He was very vague, speaking only in generalities.

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