GENERALITIES Synonyms: 127 Similar and Opposite Words

generalities

noun

plural of generality

as in notions

an idea or statement about all of the members of a group or all the instances of a situation the idea that all boys are naturally messy is a gross generality

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as in weights

the main or greater part of something as distinguished from its subordinate parts an important but little-known Scottish inventor whose work was never appreciated by the generality of the public

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as in majorities

the largest part or quantity of something the generality of that high school's students will go on to college

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Recent Examples of generalities Too often, political coverage avoids difficult questions entirely or allows politicians to speak in vague generalities without scrutiny. —

Letters To The Editor, Oc Register, 15 May 2026 But moving beyond these generalities to specifics is hard, says Thomas Timberlake, an ecologist at the University of York. —

Jonathan Lambert, NPR, 6 May 2026 Enough with the vague generalities. —

Jon Root Outkick, FOXNews.com, 24 Apr. 2026 Be specific Too many job ads read like form letters, full of generalities and corporate-speak. —

Kat Boogaard, CNBC, 15 Apr. 2026 Even questions about his rehab were met with vague generalities. —

Brody Miller, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2026 The obsequiousness, the sneers, the boasting, the vacant generalities, and the hand-waving bespeak fear of departing from the Trumpian orthodoxy of the moment. —

Eliot A. Cohen, The Atlantic, 29 Jan. 2026 In following her to this point, however, this long-game project gives remarkable dimension and particularity to the kind of migrant story often only told in journalistic generalities — showing, year on year, how time heals some wounds, opens others, and creates plenty of its own. —

Guy Lodge, Variety, 24 Jan. 2026 Observe your environment Learn to recognize generalities and patterns in your environment that, more often than not, track with pollution. —

Matt Fuchs, Time, 10 Sep. 2025

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Noun

Atlanta — Going into retirement, 58-year-old David White of Atlanta, Georgia, had some preconceived notions.

— Steve Hartman, CBS News, 16 May 2026
With a cast drawn from comedy-scene friends such as Kate Berlant and Conner O’Malley all tuned into a very specific wavelength, the movie somehow surpasses conventional notions of camp and irony to exist in a genuinely unique space all its own.

— Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2026