Definition for Generality:

• Being general, applicability to whole class of instances; vagueness; general point, principle, law, or statement; main body, bulk, majority, of. [ French]

Synonyms for Generality:

• n.

  •
  • affirmation,
  • announcement,
  • assertion,
  • apologia,
  • accusation,
  • avowal,
  • allegation,
  • attestation,
  • apology,
  • assurance.
  •
  • afterthought,
  • aside,
  • barb,
  • back talk,
  • acknowledgment,
  • comment,
  • allusion,
  • bromide,
  • backchat,
  • bon mot.
  •
  • the many,
  • at-large,
  • most.
  •abstraction (noun)
  • law,
  • principle,
  • loose statement,
  • general statement,
  • half-truth,
  • vague statement,
  • observation,
  • sweeping statement,
  • indefinite statement,
  • simplistic statement.
  •attribute (noun)
  • generality.
  •bulk (noun)
  • greater parts,
  • lions share,
  • biggest shares,
  • nearly alls,
  • best parts,
  • predominant parts,
  • lion share,
  • major parts,
  • better parts,
  • greater numbers.
  •everybody/everyone (noun)
  • all and sundries,
  • every people,
  • young olds,
  • young and olds,
  • each ones,
  • the wholes,
  • every persons,
  • the publics,
  • each persons,
  • each people,
  • all sundry,
  • all sundries,
  • young old.
  •everyone (noun)
  • every ones,
  • everymen.
  •generalisation (noun)
  • generalisation.
  •generality (noun)
  • generalization.
  •universality (noun)
  • prevalence,
  • commonality,
  • universality,
  • Collectivity,
  • ubiquity.
  •vague notion (noun)
  • abstraction,
  • abstract principle.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • maximum,
  • tops,
  • Everybody,
  • maximal.
  •
  • predominance,
  • max.
  •
  • majority.
  •
  • balance.

Paraphrases for Generality:

• Forward Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    general.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    universality.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    generalization, majority, Mainstreaming, background, scope.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    generalisation, comprehensiveness, pervasiveness, blanket, universalization.

Antonyms for Generality:

• n.

  • attribute
    particularity.
  • vague notion
    specificity, detail, specific.
  • Other antonyms:
    division, extension, smattering, feature, least, ingredient, couple, minority, accessory, specialness, angle, side, handful, constituent, quality, section, component, aspect, facet, offshoot, piece, sprinkling, part, segment, appendage, adjunct, minimum, element, few.

Generality Sentence Examples:

• He is particularly insistent on the high degree of the generality of his contention that P is passive.

• These structures, rude as they were, were superior to those we afterwards met with built by the natives, and showed us that Pullingo was more advanced in civilisation than the generality of his countrymen.

Hypernym for Generality:

• n.

  • attribute
    universality, commonality, catholicity, pervasiveness, prevalence, commonness, totality.

Hyponym for Generality:

• n.

  • attribute
    quality.