generality
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without
Definitions
noun
The quality of being general.
The population in general.
"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 so sought give their own narrowness to the mind."
A generalization.
He was very vague, speaking only in generalities.
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Synonyms
noun — an idea or conclusion having general application
Antonyms
- particularity
- specialness
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4"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
WiktionaryHe was very vague, speaking only in generalities.
WiktionaryWithout loss of generality, we can say that the sequence converges to zero.
Tatoeba · #580787The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality.
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