universality

1. 1.

   the quality of being universal; existing everywhere

   Synonymscatholicity

   Broadergenerality

Other forms of universality

plural

universalities·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about universality

What does universality mean?

universality means "the quality of being universal; existing everywhere".

How many syllables are in universality?

universality has 6 syllables: u-ni-ver-sal-i-ty. The stress falls on "sal". In IPA it is /ˌjunəvɚˈsæləti/.

What is another word for universality?

Close synonyms include catholicity. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is universality a common word?

universality is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.