Word Meanings - GENERALITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The state of being general; the quality of including species or particulars. Hooker. 2. That which is general; that which lacks specificalness, practicalness, or application; a general or vague statement or phrase. Let us descend from

Additional info about word: GENERALITY

1. The state of being general; the quality of including species or particulars. Hooker. 2. That which is general; that which lacks specificalness, practicalness, or application; a general or vague statement or phrase. Let us descend from generalities to particulars. Landor. The glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence. R. Choate. 3. The main body; the bulk; the greatest part; as, the generality of a nation, or of mankind.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of GENERALITY)

• Platitude
• Commonplace
• generality
• truism
• triviality

Related words: (words related to GENERALITY)

• TRUISM
  An undoubted or self-evident truth; a statement which is pliantly true; a proposition needing no proof or argument; -- opposed to falsism. Trifling truisms clothed in great, swelling words. J. P. Smith.
• GENERALITY
  1. The state of being general; the quality of including species or particulars. Hooker. 2. That which is general; that which lacks specificalness, practicalness, or application; a general or vague statement or phrase. Let us descend from
• TRUISMATIC
  Of or pertaining to truisms; consisting of truisms.
• TRIVIALITY
  1. The quality or state of being trivial; trivialness. 2. That which is trivial; a trifle. The philosophy of our times does not expend itself in furious discussions on mere scholastic trivialities. Lyon Playfair.
• COMMONPLACE
  Common; ordinary; trite; as, a commonplace person, or observation.
• COMMONPLACENESS
  The quality of being commonplace; commonness.
• PLATITUDE
  1. The quality or state of being flat, thin, or insipid; flat commonness; triteness; staleness of ideas of language. To hammer one golden grain of wit into a sheet of infinite platitude. Motley. 2. A thought or remark which is flat, dull, trite,
• ALTRUISM
  Regard for others, both natural and moral; devotion to the interests of others; brotherly kindness; -- opposed to egoism or selfishness. J. S. Mill.
• UNTRUISM
  Something not true; a false statement. A. Trollope.