generality

Roget category 78

1. Words expressing abstract relations
› 1.4. Order
›› 1.4.4. Distributive order

#78. Generality

noun

generality, generalization — universality — catholicity, catholicism — miscellany, miscellaneousness^† — dragnet — common run — worldwideness^†.
everyone, everybody — all hands, all the world and his wife — anybody, N or M, all sorts.
prevalence, run.

verb

be general etc. adj. — prevail, be going about, stalk abroad.
render general etc. adj. — generalize.

adjective

general, generic, collective — broad, comprehensive, sweeping — encyclopedical^†, widespread etc. (dispersed) 73.
universal — catholic, catholical^† — common, worldwide — ecumenical, oecumenical^† — transcendental — prevalent, prevailing, rife, epidemic, besetting — all over, covered with.
Pan-American, Anglican^†, Pan-Hellenic, Pan-Germanic, slavic — panharmonic^†.
every, all — unspecified, impersonal.
customary etc. (habitual) 613.

adverb

whatever, whatsoever — to a man, one and all.
generally etc. adj. — always, for better for worse — in general, generally speaking — speaking generally — for the most part — in the long run etc. (on an average) 29.

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