CATHOLICITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Catholicity mean? 

• CATHOLICITY (noun)
  The noun CATHOLICITY has 2 senses:

1. the beliefs and practices of a Catholic Church

2. the quality of being universal; existing everywhere

  Familiarity information: CATHOLICITY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CATHOLICITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The beliefs and practices of a Catholic Church

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

Catholicism; Catholicity

Hypernyms ("Catholicity" is a kind of...):

Christian religion; Christianity (a monotheistic system of beliefs and practices based on the Old Testament and the teachings of Jesus as embodied in the New Testament and emphasizing the role of Jesus as savior)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Catholicity"):

papism; Roman Catholicism; Romanism (the beliefs and practices of the Catholic Church based in Rome)

Eastern Catholicism (the beliefs and practices of any of the eastern Catholic Churches based in Constantinople or Antioch or Alexandria or Moscow or Jerusalem)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The quality of being universal; existing everywhere

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

catholicity; universality

Hypernyms ("catholicity" is a kind of...):

generality (the quality of being general or widespread or having general applicability)

Derivation:

catholic (free from provincial prejudices or attachments)

 Context examples 

No doubt the feat was easy to Mr. Utterson; for he was undemonstrative at the best, and even his friendship seemed to be founded in a similar catholicity of good-nature.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)