generality

generality
n
1. vague statement, loose statement, indefinite statement, general phrase, generalization.
2. general principle, general rule, general law, abstraction, universality.
3. greater part, majority, bulk, mass, main, body.
4.. lack of particularity, indefiniteness, vagueness, uncertainty, inexactitude, inexactness, indeterminateness, looseness; miscellany, miscellaneousness, collec-tiveness, indiscriminateness, promiscuity, promiscu-ousness; diversification, heterogenity, variety, assortment.
5. universality, catholicity, ecumenicity, generalness, publicness; average, common run, ordinary run, mean; conventionality, regularity; custom, habit.

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