Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Distributive Order

Class

Nouns
  • class, division, category, categorema, head, order, section
  • department, subdepartment, province, domain. kind, sort, genus, species, variety, family, order, kingdom, race, tribe, caste, sept, clan, breed, type, subtype, kit, sect, set, subset
  • assortment
  • feather, kidney
  • suit
  • range
  • gender, sex, kin. manner, description, denomination, designation, rubric, character, stamp predicament
  • indication, particularization, selection, specification. similarity etc. Similarity.

Inclusion (Comprehension under, or reference to a class)

Nouns
  • inclusion, admission, comprehension, reception. composition etc. (inclusion in a compound) Composition.
Verbs
  • be included in etc.
  • come under, fall under, range under
  • belong to, pertain to
  • range with
  • merge in. include, comprise, comprehend, contain, admit, embrace, receive
  • inclose etc. (circumscribe) Circumscription
  • embody, encircle. reckon among, enumerate among, number among
  • refer to
  • place with, arrange with, place under
  • take into account.
Adjectives
  • included, including etc. v.
  • inclusive
  • congener, congenerous
  • of the same class etc. Class
  • encircling.
Phrases
  • c. etc.

Exclusion

Nouns

Generality

Nouns
  • generality, generalization
  • universality
  • catholicity, catholicism
  • miscellany, miscellaneousness
  • dragnet
  • common run
  • worldwideness. everyone, everybody
  • all hands, all the world and his wife
  • anybody, N or M, all sorts. prevalence, run.
Verbs
  • be general etc. adj.
  • prevail, be going about, stalk abroad. render general etc. adj.
  • generalize.
Adjectives
  • general, generic, collective
  • broad, comprehensive, sweeping
  • encyclopedical, widespread etc. (dispersed) Nonassemblage. Dispersion. universal
  • catholic, catholical
  • common, worldwide
  • ecumenical, oecumenical
  • transcendental
  • prevalent, prevailing, rife, epidemic, besetting
  • all over, covered with. Pan-American, Anglican, Pan-Hellenic, Pan-Germanic, slavic
  • panharmonic. every, all
  • unspecified, impersonal. customary etc. (habitual) Habit [includes commonness due to frequency of occurrence].
Adverbs
  • whatever, whatsoever
  • to a man, one and all. generally etc. adj.
  • always, for better for worse
  • in general, generally speaking
  • speaking generally
  • for the most part
  • in the long run etc. (on an average) Mean.

Speciality

Nouns
  • speciality, specialite
  • individuality, individuity
  • particularity, peculiarity
  • idiocrasy etc. (tendency) Tendency
  • personality, characteristic, mannerism, idiosyncrasy
  • specificness etc. adj.
  • singularity etc. (unconformity) Unconformity
  • reading, version, lection
  • state
  • trait
  • distinctive feature
  • technicality
  • differentia. particulars, details, items, counts
  • minutiae. I, self, I myself
  • myself, himself, herself, itself.
Verbs
  • specify, particularize, individualize, realize, specialize, designate, determine
  • denote, indicate, point out, select. descend to particulars, enter into detail, go into detail, come to the point.
Adjectives
  • special, particular, individual, specific, proper, personal, original, private, respective, definite, determinate, especial, certain, esoteric, endemic, partial, party, peculiar, appropriate, several, characteristic, diagnostic, exclusive
  • singular etc. (exceptional) Unconformity
  • idiomatic
  • idiotypical
  • typical. this, that
  • yon, yonder.
Adverbs
  • specially, especially, particularly etc. adj.
  • in particular
  • for my part. each, apiece, one by one, one at a time
  • severally, respectively, each to each
  • seriatim, in detail, in great detail, in excruciating detail, in mind-numbing detail
  • bit by bit
  • that is to say, for example, id est, e.g., i.e., videlicet, viz.
  • to wit.