GDict

generality

.dʒenә'ræliti4 senses · 52 ms
Level C1GRE
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noun/ˌd͡ʒɛn.əˈɹæl.ɪ.ti//ˌd͡ʒɛn.əˈɹæl.ə.ti/[ˌd͡ʒɛn.əˈɹæl.ə.ɾi]
  1. 1

    The quality of being general.uncountable

  2. 2

    The population in general.uncountable

    • "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
  3. 3

    A generalization.countable

    • He was very vague, speaking only in generalities.

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