generalities in English

noun
1
a statement or principle having general rather than specific validity or force.
he confined his remarks to generalities
synonyms:generalizationgeneral statementgeneral principlesweeping statementabstractionextrapolation
2
the majority.
appropriate to the generality of laymen
noun

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Below are sample sentences containing the word "generalities" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "generalities", or refer to the context using the word "generalities" in the English Dictionary.

1. The spokesman dealt in generalities.

2. A talk dealing in generalities lacks weight and authority.

3. His speeches are generalities from Poor Richard's Almanac.

4. Unfortunately the treaty is full of generalities, and fails to get down to specifics.

5. The Secretary of State has given us nothing today but bland generalities.

6. 10 He avoided this tricky question and talked in generalities.

7. I wish you would come down from generalities to particulars.

8. We need to get away from generalities and focus on the issues.

9. Generalities: Baryta carbonica is an interesting study, because it is fully proved and a constitutional remedy

10. Despite this diversity and the fact that certain organisms can grow at extremes of the pH scale, generalities can be made.

11. 7 Any attempt to nail down individuals with the aid of rules and collective values seems doomed to vague and complex generalities.

12. Any attempt to nail down individuals with the aid of rules and collective values seems doomed to vague and complex generalities.

13. As the late Victor Schwab would put it, "our mind is a montage of hasty impressions, fuzzy generalities, bromidic wall-motto sentiments, self-justifications and sentimentalities."

14. Belting is the use of belts made of strong materials (usually leather) as a whip -like instrument for corporal punishment (see that article for generalities)

15. This recently published volume observes that a computer’s speed in calculations and step-by-step logic is far surpassed by the brain’s ability in “parallel processing, integrating and synthesizing information, and abstracting it from generalities.”

16. Parent Materials Because of their large areal extent, temperate region soils encompass a broad array of parent materials, ranging from residuum to glacially derived sediments to loess, alluvium, and Colluvium. Although this broad array exists, a few generalities can be observed.

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18. In speaking about all this , Badruddin pointed out that the whole rigid and elaborate purdah system was founded on the few generalities in the Quran , where women were told not to flaunt their beauty before man .