Roget's Thesaurus eBook

Peter Roget
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 925 pages of information about Roget's Thesaurus.

Roget's Thesaurus eBook

Peter Roget
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 925 pages of information about Roget's Thesaurus.

     #78.  Generality. —­ N. {opp. 79} generality, generalization;
universality; catholicity, catholicism; miscellany, miscellaneousness[obs3]; dragnet; common run; worldwideness[obs3].
     everyone, everybody; all hands, all the world and his wife; anybody, N
or M, all sorts.
     prevalence, run. 
     V. be general &c. adj.; prevail, be going about, stalk abroad.
     render general &c. adj.; generalize. 
     Adj. general, generic, collective; broad, comprehensive, sweeping;
encyclopedical[obs3], widespread &c. (dispersed) 73.
     universal; catholic, catholical[obs3]; common, worldwide;
ecumenical, oecumenical[obs3]; transcendental; prevalent, prevailing, rife, epidemic, besetting; all over, covered with. 
     Pan-American, Anglican[obs3], Pan-Hellenic, Pan-Germanic, Slavic;
panharmonic[obs3].
     every, all; unspecified, impersonal.
     customary &c. (habitual) 613. 
     Adv. whatever, whatsoever; to a man, one and all.
     generally &c. adj.; always, for better for worse; in general,
generally speaking; speaking generally; for the most part; in the long run &c. (on an average) 29.

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     #79.  Speciality. —­ N. {opp. 78} speciality, specialite[obs3];
individuality, individuity|; particularity, peculiarity; idiocrasy &c. (tendency) 176[obs3]; personality, characteristic, mannerism, idiosyncrasy; specificness &c. adj[obs3].; singularity &c. (unconformity) 83; reading, version, lection; state; trait; distinctive feature; technicality; differentia.
     particulars, details, items, counts; minutiae. 
     I, self, I myself; myself, himself, herself, itself. 
     V. specify, particularize, individualize, realize, specialize,
designate, determine; denote, indicate, point out, select.
     descend to particulars, enter into detail, go into detail, come to the
point. 
     Adj. special, particular, individual, specific, proper, personal,
original, private, respective, definite, determinate, especial, certain, esoteric, endemic, partial, party, peculiar, appropriate, several, characteristic, diagnostic, exclusive; singular &c. (exceptional) 83; idiomatic; idiotypical; typical.
     this, that; yon, yonder. 
     Adv. specially, especially, particularly &c. adj.; in particular,
in propria persona[Lat]; ad hominem[Lat]; for my part.
     each, apiece, one by one, one at a time; severally, respectively, each
to each; seriatim, in detail, in great detail, in excruciating detail, in mind-numbing detail; bit by bit; pro hac vice[Lat], pro re nata[Lat].
     namely, that is to say, for example, id est, exemplia gratia[Lat],
e.g., i.e., videlicet, viz.; to wit. 
     Phr. le style est l’homme meme[Fr].

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     #80.  Normality. —­ N. normality, normalcy, normalness[obs3];
familiarity, naturalness; commonness (frequency) 136; rule, standard (conformity) 82; customary (habit) 613; standard, pattern (prototype) 22. 
     V. normalize, standardize. 
     Adj. normal, natural, unexceptional; common, usual (frequency) 136;

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