What is another word for catholicity?

Pronunciation: [kˌaθəlˈɪsɪti] (IPA)

There are several synonyms for the word catholicity, which refers to the universal or wide-ranging nature of something. Synonyms include universality, inclusiveness, broadness, comprehensiveness, and diversity. All of these synonyms represent the idea of a concept or belief that applies to all people or situations, not just a specific group or circumstance. For example, a church that promotes catholicity is one that welcomes people of all faiths and backgrounds, rather than just a select few. Similarly, a philosophy that emphasizes universality is one that transcends cultural and societal differences to provide a more comprehensive understanding of the world. These synonyms for catholicity highlight the importance of inclusiveness and diversity in our thinking and outlook.

What are the hypernyms for Catholicity?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Catholicity

Mr. Gladstone, being now thoroughly aware that his friend was entertaining serious doubts as to the catholicity of the Church of England, writes him a very long and deeply considered letter, appealing in the first place to a promise of co-operation which Mr. Hope had made him in the earlier days of their friendship, and placing before him, with all the power and eloquence of which he is so great a master, what he regarded as the most unanswerable arguments for remaining in the Anglican communion.
"Memoirs of James Robert Hope-Scott, Volume 2"
Robert Ornsby
The path by which Mr. Hope-Scott was led to catholicity has been made sufficiently apparent.
"Memoirs of James Robert Hope-Scott, Volume 2"
Robert Ornsby
There could be no real catholicity in such a choice as that.
"A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer"
William Reed Huntington

Famous quotes with Catholicity

  • Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language - so long as he knows anguish and is a painter.
    Charles Baudelaire
  • But I have to add - and this answers your other question - this catholicity in time and in space is only meaningful for me if there is, at the same time, a concentration on the Gospel.
    Hans Kung
  • I like the catholicity in time: our tradition is one of 2,000 years.
    Hans Kung
  • The skeptic will applaud our labours, for that the very catholicity of the symbols denies them any objective validity, since, in so many contradictions, something must be false; while the mystic will rejoice equally that the self-same catholicity all-embracing proves that very validity, since after all something must be true.
    Aleister Crowley
  • It must be very painful to a man of Lord Hugh Cecil's natural benevolence and human charity to find so many of God's children wandering simultaneously so far astray ... In these circumstances I would venture to suggest to my noble friend, whose gifts and virtues I have all my life admired, that some further refinement is needed in the catholicity of his condemnations.
    Winston Churchill

Related words: catholicity of the church, catholicity and ecumenism, catholicity and secularism, catholicity and protestantism, catholicity in the bible, catholicity in orthodox christianity, catholicity in ireland

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