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''catholicity'' ▫ᴱᴺ｜Definition｜1st｜20260714000159-00-⌔
catholicity - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
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Noun
catholicity (usually uncountable, plural catholicities)
- The quality of being catholic, universal or inclusive.
- ✤ Synonyms: universality, comprehensiveness
- ✤ This attitude of openness to truth, which is at the same time both one and diverse, profoundly expresses the catholicity of the Church, for she embraces the entire human family yet is also immersed in the concrete situations of peoples and cultures.1
Etymology
From catholic + -ity.
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Link to original Footnotes
2026, Pope Leo XIV, chapter 1, in Magnifica humanitas : ↩
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