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/dʒˌɛnəɹəlaɪzˈeɪʃən/
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NOUN
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an idea or conclusion having general application
he spoke in broad generalities - reasoning from detailed facts to general principles
- (psychology) transfer of a response learned to one stimulus to a similar stimulus
- the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances
How To Use generalisation In A Sentence
- But they may still serve a basis for some generalisation when the issue of ‘partnership’ is brought into question.
- Spinal injuries defy classifications and generalisations. Times, Sunday Times
- These feeling make you avoid generalizations and Russia is no more 'feudalistic' and USA is no more 'Paradise for handmaidens'. On Bushevicks, Bolsheviks and Scum: For The Record
- A cautionary note is indicated about the generalization of these data to the clinical management of depressed patients.
- But it's wild generalizations like this that point up the irrelevancy of such commercially-driven lists.
- In practice, the book is a rambling history of discoveries, geology, astronomy, palaeontology, chaos theory and graphing techniques with more than a few unqualified generalisations.
- It is typical of painters, he wrote, to make these wild accusations, wild generalizations.
- Much of the introductory chapter consists of broad generalizations about Indians, culture areas, reservations, and allotment.
- Western parents - I use the term loosely, which is handy for any generalization Forbes.com: News
- This can easily be shown by considering any case in which a universal generalization is inferred from an unexhausted series of wholly favourable instances.