generalizationgen‧e‧ral‧i‧za‧tion (also generalisation British English) /ˌdʒenərəlaɪˈzeɪʃən $ -lə-/ ●○○ noun - Those who reject generalization insist that history consists of unique and separate events.
- Although they embody a real-world claim about how agents are motivated, they function more like a paradigm than a generalization.
- Comparison of evidence from other countries or geographical regions would seek to confirm this generalization.
- In our example, the data seem too contradictory to support any clear generalization about gender and voting.
- In such schemes generalization is regarded as a process applicable to different areas of content.
- Nor is science concerned with just the kinds of generalization that make up a theory of determinism with respect to our lives.
- Sometimes the phenomena are so complicated or the evidence is so mixed that no generalization is possible.
- The limited body of mathematical results describing chaotic control networks makes generalization difficult.
► make generalizations You can’t make generalizations about what men and women are like. ► broad/sweeping/gross generalization a sweeping generalization based on speculation ► sweeping statement/generalization- He prefers a complicated sentence to a sweeping statement.
- Of course, this is usually so, but I am having little niggling doubts about such a sweeping statement.
- This is a sweeping statement which makes little obvious sense on first reading, so let us dissect it more carefully.
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