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overgeneralisation

overgeneralisation is the alternative form of overgeneralization.

Meaning of overgeneralization

Noun

overgeneralization (countable and uncountable, plural overgeneralizations)

  1. (uncountable, usually) The act of overgeneralizing.
    • "George Orwell put the easy use of words like 'unique' under the headings of 'pretentious diction' and overgeneralization.1995 July 7, Gary Houston, “Everything's Unique”, in Chicago Reader
  2. (countable) 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.2000 January 28, Keith Kloor, “RESTORATION ECOLOGY:Returning America's Forests to Their 'Natural' Roots”, in Science, volume 287, number 5453, →DOI, pages 573–575

Forms of overgeneralisation

pluralovergeneralisations

Questions about overgeneralisation

What is overgeneralisation the alternative form of?
Overgeneralisation is the alternative form of overgeneralization.

Words near overgeneralisation in the dictionary

  1. overgenderize
  2. overgenderized
  3. overgenderizes
  4. overgenderizing
  5. overgeneral
  6. overgeneralisation
  7. overgeneralisations
  8. overgeneralise
  9. overgeneralised
  10. overgeneralises
  11. overgeneralising

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