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overgeneralization

noun

Etymology

From over- + generalization.

  1. derived from generālis
  2. derived from general
  3. derived from general
  4. inherited from general
  5. formed as generalization — “general + -ization”
  6. prefixed as overgeneralization — “over + generalization”

Definitions

  1. The act of overgeneralizing.

    • "George Orwell put the easy use of words like 'unique' under the headings of 'pretentious diction' and overgeneralization.
    • Fortunately for all of us, the rhetoric of both cultural pessimism and postmodernism contains more than its fair share of exaggeration and overgeneralization.

  2. An instance of overgeneralizing.

    • It's an overgeneralization to say that everywhere you look is the hand of man in the presettlement era," says Thomas Swetnam, a fire ecologist at the University of Arizona in Tucson.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for overgeneralization. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA