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• catholicity
  catholicity

  noun

  broad-mindedness or liberality, as of tastes, interests, or views.
• Catholicity
  Catholicity

  noun

  the beliefs, etc, of the Catholic Church

catholicity

American  

[kath-uh-lis-i-tee] / ˌkæθ əˈlɪs ɪ ti /

noun

1. broad-mindedness or liberality, as of tastes, interests, or views.

2. universality; general inclusiveness.

3. (initial capital letter) the Roman Catholic Church, or its doctrines and usages.

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catholicity ¹ British  

/ ˌkæθəˈlɪsɪtɪ /

noun

1. a wide range of interests, tastes, etc; liberality

2. universality; comprehensiveness

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Catholicity ² British  

/ ˌkæθəˈlɪsɪtɪ /

noun

1. the beliefs, etc, of the Catholic Church

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Other Word Forms

• noncatholicity
  noun
• uncatholicity
  noun

Etymology

Origin of catholicity

First recorded in 1820–30; catholic + -ity

Example Sentences

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catholicity Catholicity

First: The 20th century’s bright lines between photographic genres, which made Avedon so anxious and led critics to dismiss all his imagery as one big Vogue shoot, had dissolved into the 21st century’s low-drama catholicity.

From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2023

But while that genre catholicity has always been part of Mr. Brooks’s arsenal, he’s too savvy to ignore the country base.

From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2014

It would be hard to top the catholicity of discovery provided by this eclectic collection of scientists.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 21, 2013

She asserts her Catholicism with a most graceful catholicity.

From Time Magazine Archive

In fact, a hyenas catholicity of taste is so indiscriminate it nearly forces admiration.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel

In spirit and in truth, Greek Orthodoxy is worlds apart from Roman Catholicity, as your article clearly points out.

From Time Magazine Archive

His heresy, though broken into a multitude of sects, was poured over the world with a Catholicity not inferior in its day to that of Christianity.

From An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine by John Henry Cardinal Newman

In the vast and complex organism of Catholicity there were some parts which acted with admirable force in improving and elevating mankind.

From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) by William Edward Hartpole Lecky

Henceforth she has ranged against her those powers of genius and that sanctity of life, to which so many of her children looked as to a certain omen of her Catholicity.

From The Church of England cleared from the charge of Schism Upon Testimonies of Councils and Fathers of the first six centuries by T. W. (Thomas William) Allies

Similarly, the omission of signs that are associated with Catholicity, but which are optional, is not a denial of the faith.

From Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities by Charles Jerome Callan