universalness

English

Etymology

From universal +‎ -ness.

Noun

universalness (uncountable)

  1. The quality or state of being universal.
    Synonym: universality
    • 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities:
      There was a beautiful infant in it; and this beautiful infant […] first filled me with the dim thought of Beauty; and equally, and at the same time, with the feeling of the Sadness; of the immortalness and universalness of the Sadness.
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