0 an occasion when what someone says contains no details, and often very little meaning, or a statement of this type:
1 most:
The generality of the people supports the government.
2 a statement without details and sometimes without much meaning:
The candidate’s speech was full of generalities and never focused on the issues.
Despite these generalities, however, the picture of prosodic development presented here highlights variability.
There are, of course, the generalities of biology and anthropology.
Such generalities lead one to consider the nineteenth century - a particularly diverse epoch - as a totality without nuance.
In my view, that is because neither view is correct and there are no sustainable generalities about the directions of change.
Beyond these broad generalities, however, a consensus regarding specifics has been elusive.
However, while both approaches yield some helpful, general observations, it is this recourse to generalities which sometimes proves problematic.
The dilemma of confounding variables could potentially be circumvented by seeking situations that represent exceptions to regional generalities.
In general, the fans seem disinterested in the specifics - even the generalities - of how their music resembles classical models.
