单词 | genericity |
释义 | genericityn. The property of being generic, esp. in some technical sense of the word. Cf. genericness n. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > [noun] > state of being non-specific genericalness1708 genericism1840 non-specificity1922 genericness1939 genericity1964 1964 Information Storage & Retrieval 2 59 The days are past of the very wide generic claim which reached its climax in the dyestuffs patents of some 40–50 years ago, but great difficulties remain..in drafting claims which will express the legitimate genericity of the compounds. 1968 Amer. Speech 43 24 The word foxes is a simple plural which fails to suggest genericity or collectivity. 1977 Nature 5 May 34/1 The qualification ‘except in special circumstances’ implies the assumption of genericity that underlies catastrophe theory. 1994 E. J. Weinrib in R. P. George Nat. Law Theory xii. 353 What we may call the 'genericity' of the entity, i.e. what distinguishes this entity and others of the same kind from entities of a different kind. 2002 Washington Post (Nexis) 13 Sept. (Style section) 5 They live in a suburb so generic the word ‘generic’ isn't generic enough to quite express the genericity of it. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1964 |
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