[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

generality \gen`eral"ity\, n.; pl. generalities. l.
   generalitas: cf. f. g'en'eralit'e. cf. generalty.
   1913 webster
   1. the state of being general; the quality of including
      species or particulars. --hooker.
      1913 webster

   2. that which is general; that which lacks specificalness,
      practicalness, or application; a general or vague
      statement or phrase.
      1913 webster

            let us descend from generalities to particulars.
                                                  --landor.
      1913 webster

            the glittering and sounding generalities of natural
            right which make up the declaration of independence.
                                                  --r. choate.
      1913 webster

   3. the main body; the bulk; the greatest part; as, the
      generality of a nation, or of mankind.
      1913 webster
see also:
generalities generalty 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

generality
     n 1: an idea having general application; "he spoke in broad
          generalities" syn: generalization, generalisation
     2: the quality of being general or widespread or having general
        applicability ant: particularity
see also:
generalization generalisation particularity 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

96 moby thesaurus words for "generality":
   everyman, public, abstract, abstraction, abstractions,
   amorphousness, average, average man, averageness, balance,
   best part, better part, blobbiness, blurriness, body, broadness,
   bulk, center, common man, common run, commonness, commonplaceness,
   currency, disorder, essence, everyman, everywoman, fogginess,
   fuzziness, generalization, girl next door, gist, golden mean,
   gravamen, happy medium, haziness, homme moyen sensuel,
   ill-definedness, imprecision, inaccuracy, inchoateness,
   incoherence, indecisiveness, indefinableness, indefiniteness,
   indeterminateness, indistinctness, inexactness, juste-milieu, laws,
   laxity, looseness, main body, major part, majority, mass, mean,
   meat, median, mediocrity, medium, middle, middle course,
   middle ground, middle point, middle position, middle state,
   middle-of-the-road, midpoint, mistiness, most, norm, normal,
   obscuration, obscurity, ordinariness, ordinary joe, ordinary run,
   par, plurality, prevalence, principles, ruck, rule, run,
   shapelessness, substance, sweeping statement, sweepingness, thrust,
   unclearness, universality, usualness, vague notion, vagueness,
   via media

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