generality

generality
    n 1: an idea or conclusion having general application; "he spoke
         in broad generalities" [syn: {generalization},
         {generalisation}, {generality}]
    2: the quality of being general or widespread or having general
       applicability [ant: {particularity}, {specialness}]
    

Generality \Gen`er*al"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Generalities}. [L.
   generalitas: cf. F. g['e]n['e]ralit['e]. Cf. {Generalty}.]
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   1. The state of being general; the quality of including
      species or particulars. --Hooker.
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   2. That which is general; that which lacks specificalness,
      practicalness, or application; a general or vague
      statement or phrase.
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            Let us descend from generalities to particulars.
                                                  --Landor.
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            The glittering and sounding generalities of natural
            right which make up the Declaration of Independence.
                                                  --R. Choate.
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   3. The main body; the bulk; the greatest part; as, the
      generality of a nation, or of mankind.
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96 Moby Thesaurus words for "generality":
      Everyman, Public, abstract, abstraction, abstractions,
      amorphousness, average, average man, averageness, balance,
      best part, better part, blobbiness, blurriness, body, broadness,
      bulk, center, common man, common run, commonness, commonplaceness,
      currency, disorder, essence, everyman, everywoman, fogginess,
      fuzziness, generalization, girl next door, gist, golden mean,
      gravamen, happy medium, haziness, homme moyen sensuel,
      ill-definedness, imprecision, inaccuracy, inchoateness,
      incoherence, indecisiveness, indefinableness, indefiniteness,
      indeterminateness, indistinctness, inexactness, juste-milieu, laws,
      laxity, looseness, main body, major part, majority, mass, mean,
      meat, median, mediocrity, medium, middle, middle course,
      middle ground, middle point, middle position, middle state,
      middle-of-the-road, midpoint, mistiness, most, norm, normal,
      obscuration, obscurity, ordinariness, ordinary Joe, ordinary run,
      par, plurality, prevalence, principles, ruck, rule, run,
      shapelessness, substance, sweeping statement, sweepingness, thrust,
      unclearness, universality, usualness, vague notion, vagueness,
      via media