universality

UK/ˌjuː.nɪ.vɜːˈsæl.ə.ti/US/ˌju.nɪ.vɝˈsæl.ə.ti/

nounC1Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speech — verse sits at #3,866mostly written

Universality is the quality of applying to everybody everywhere. Claim universality.

It is asserted far more often than it is demonstrated, particularly about values. Universality in healthcare means everybody is covered, which is a policy rather than a philosophy.

Definitions of universality

1noununiversalityThe quality of applying to everybody everywhere.C1
“The universality of the rule was its whole strength.”

universality is a quality.

Where it comes from

Latin universalitas, from universus, all together, which is unus, one, plus versus, turned.

Latin
universalitas
Middle French
universalité
Middle English
universalite
English, today
universality

From Middle English universalite, from Middle French universalité, from Old French -, from Latin universalitas. by surface analysis, universal + -ity.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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universality in the wild

In statistical mechanics, an universality class is a set of mathematical models which share a scale-invariant limit under renormalization group flow.
Universality class
In statistical mechanics, universality is the observation that there are properties for a large class of systems that are independent of the dynamical details of the system.
Universality (dynamical systems)
Systems display universality in a scaling limit, when a large number of interacting parts come together.
Universality (dynamical systems)
The Kubrawiya order places emphasis on the universality of its approach.
Kubrawiya
The argument from love is an argument for the existence of God that suggests the depth, complexity, and universality of love point to a transcendent source or purpose.
Argument from love

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

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