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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

genericity en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree English generic Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Latin -itāsder. Old French -itebor. Middle English -ite English -ity English genericity From generic + -ity.

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) Genericness, the state or quality of being generic.
    • The essence of genericity analysis rests on counting equations and unknowns. 1995, Andreu Mas-Colell, Michael D. Whinston, and Jerry R. Green, Microeconomic Theory, Oxford University Press, page 593:

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Antonyms

specificity

Synonyms

catholicity · universality · genericness · generality · genericity