noun
Other Word Forms
- nonuniversality noun
Etymology
Origin of universality
1325–75; Middle English universalite < Late Latin ūniversālitās. See universal, -ity
Example Sentences
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Readers are as varied as individuals, but there’s a universality of emotion.
From Los Angeles Times
The Winter Olympic Federations said in a statement earlier this week it was "fully committed" to "innovation, universality, and strengthening the special and clearly differentiated appeal" of the Olympic Winter Games.
From BBC
In considering Mexican history, he asks us to look first to its “everyday universality” and only then to “the uniqueness of the peoples who made the first truly global society.”
As “the first major Muslim candidate for mayor in New York City history,” he said, he initially thought he “could build a campaign of universality.”
He liked the fresh, colorful and sensual image that a mango instilled, and the universality of a word recognizable in many languages without translation.
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