typical
adjective
of the nature of or serving as a type or representative specimen.
typicality
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a word derived from
typical.
Example Sentences
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Third, typicality: The lead plaintiffs face the same injury that everybody else in the class faces.
From Slate ● Jul. 11, 2025
Specimens, for Whitman, weren’t just about typicality and representative capacity; they were a way of learning—relearning—how to see.
From Slate ● Jan. 9, 2015
Although many of the attacks upon them verge on the crackpot, questions regarding the typicality of the sample swatch cannot be summarily dismissed.
From Time Magazine Archive
The curious factor of this species of humour is that we are entirely unable to recognise the typicality of the caricatures which other nations draw of ourselves.
From At Large by Arthur Christopher Benson
Emerson says manners form the representative apex and final charm and captivation of humanity: but he might as well have changed the typicality to voice.
From Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman
