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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Generality \Gen`er*al"i*ty\, n.; pl. Generalities. [L. generalitas: cf. F. g['e]n['e]ralit['e]. Cf. Generalty.]
The state of being general; the quality of including species or particulars.
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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. The main body; the bulk; the greatest part; as, the generality of a nation, or of mankind.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1400, from Old French generalité, from Latin generalitatem (nominative generalitas) "generality," from generalis (see general (adj.)). Related: Generalities. Form generalty is attested from late 14c.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (cx lang=en uncountable) The quality of being general. 2 (cx lang=en countable) A generalization.
WordNet
n. an idea having general application; "he spoke in broad generalities" [syn: generalization, generalisation]
the quality of being general or widespread or having general applicability [ant: particularity]
Wikipedia
In behavioral psychology, the Assumption of Generality is the assumption that the results of experiments involving schedules of reinforcement, conducted on non-human subjects (often pigeons), can be generalized to apply to humans. If the assumption holds, many aspects of daily human life can be understood in terms of these results. The naturalization of the sunlight helps our bodies to stay awake and keep motivated. The darkness that comes with night tells our body to slow down for the day and get some rest. The ability to survive comes with generality. Experiments have been done to test inescapability and insolubility.
Fergus Lowe has questioned the generality of schedule effects in cases of fixed-interval performance among humans and non-humans.
The ability to generalize information from one situation to another is a function of several factors. The reliability of the original information; the paradigm's validity; your understanding of the paradigm and the true determinants of the behavior and the relevant details of the situations in question; and the similarity between the original source of the data and the situation to which it is to be applied.
There are both similarities and differences between the terms "stimulus generalization" and "generality of a functional relationship." Stimulus generalization is the description of the fact that an organism behaves in a similar way to similar stimuli and that the more different the stimuli the more different the behavior. The generality of a finding refers to the degree to which a functional relationship obtained in one situation is able to predict the obtained relationship in a new situation.
Keep in mind that we are not really interested in the "generality" of individual events but rather in the generality of functional relationships. We are not interested in the fact that responding occurs to X about the same as it did to Z but rather that distributed practice helps in learning nonsense syllables and in learning other tasks.
Generality may be:
- The assumption of Generality, a concept in psychology
A generality or generalty is a word used in Ancien Régime France and other European countries of that era to indicate the regime of central government (as opposed to a "particularity", which was the government of the provinces). These include:
- Généralité (France)
- Generaliteitslanden (Netherlands) (Generality Lands)
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Generalitat (Spain)
- Generalitat de Catalunya
- Generalitat Valenciana
Usage examples of "generality".
But in two cases arising under the National Industrial Recovery Act, a policy declaration of comparable generality was held insufficient for the promulgation of rules applicable to all persons engaged in a designated activity, without the procedural safeguards which surround the issuance of individual orders.
It is a rule of wide generality, that whenever there is any difference in the degree of exposure to radiation between the upper and the lower surfaces of leaves and leaflets, it is the upper which is the least exposed, as may be seen in Lotus, Cytisus, Trifolium, and other genera.
The identities of nature would be presented to the imagination as though spelled out letter by letter, and the spontaneous shift of words within their rhetorical space would reproduce, with perfect exactitude, the identity of beings with their increasing generality.
Miss Amelia always kept to the broad, rambling generalities of the matter, going on endlessly in a low, thoughtful voice and getting nowhere -- while Cousin Lymon would interrupt her suddenly to pick up, magpie fashion, some detail which, even if unimportant, was at least concrete and bearing on some practical facet close at hand.
Begun by an actor--one of the Succot brothers, I believe--a generation ago, and adopted by the generality.
This procedure, resembling as it does the trope of zeugma, gives the effect of reducing diverse things to unity, eliminating particulars for generalities, just as the final two feet of the hexameter, the dactyl and the final firm spondee, cut across the grammatical and word divisions to punctuate the shifting cadences of the first four feet.
His face too was accounted handsome by the generality of women, for it was broad and ruddy, with tolerably good teeth.
Reserving my criticism of the fallacious claims about the linguistic performances of other animals for the next chapter, I will concentrate here on the misinterpretation of the evidence that is supposed to show that other animals have concepts that enable them to deal with generalities as well as with particulars.
The generality of the citizens had declared themselves against a pentarchy devoid of power, justice, and morality, and which had become the sport of faction and intrigue.
To say the truth, if we are to judge by the ordinary behaviour of married persons to each other, we shall perhaps be apt to conclude that the generality seek the indulgence of the former passion only, in their union of everything but of hearts.
This generality of biopolitical production makes clear a second programmatic political demand of the multitude: a social wage and a guaranteed income for all.
Though not indifferent to the pleasures of the table, I was far from resigning myself to the Circean life led by the generality of young military men in the Bahamas.
It is impossible to study the several memoirs and works of those two conscientious and admirable observers, Kolreuter and Gartner, who almost devoted their lives to this subject, without being deeply impressed with the high generality of some degree of sterility.
Looking at the question, now, in its generality, and referring to the first movements of the atoms towards mass-constitution, we find that heterogeneousness, brought about directly through condensation, is proportional with it forever.
The humanitarian is carried away by a vague generality, and loses men in humanity, sacrifices the rights of men in a vain endeavor to secure the rights of man, as your Calvinist or his brother Jansenist sacrifices the rights of nature in order to secure the freedom of grace.