Definition of universality
1 : the quality or state of being universal
2 : universal comprehensiveness in range
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Recent Examples of universality from the Web
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But the universality of the show transcends the individuality of its characters.
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There was a kind of universality expressed by their feelings.
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Their universality might make a case for keeping them around as times change, so our descendants can get a fuller sensory picture of the past.
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With its universality and range of meaning, the Iliad has gripped readers in many ages and societies, both peaceful and belligerent.
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Trump has always been a skeptic of the universality of Western values, especially democracy.
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There’s a universality in that story—many friendships weather similar imbalances—but there’s also something particularly germane to the gay experience, a kind of double loneliness that Significant Other illustrates in subtle and lovely ways.
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Troy Maxson embodies the truth that the universality of the art isn’t in its sameness but in its differences.
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In general, Majumdar and Schehr believe, systems in the Tracy-Widom universality class exhibit one phase in which all components act in concert and another phase in which the components act alone.
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First Known Use of universality
15th century
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