generalization

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

An act or instance of generalizing; concluding that something true of a subclass is true of the entire class.
The formulation of general concepts from specific instances by abstracting common properties.
Inductive reasoning from detailed facts to general principles.
An oversimplified or exaggerated conception, opinion, or image of the members of a group.
A proof, axiom, problem, or definition that includes another's cases, and also some additional cases; a conclusion reached by inferring from specific cases to more general cases or principles.

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generalization generalizations generalisation

From general + -ization.

abstraction despecification generalization genericization universalization

specialization concretization individualization particularization singularization

stereotype

genrelization hasty generalization misgeneralization overgeneralization undergeneralization

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