Associations to the word «Generalization»

Wiktionary

GENERALIZATION, noun. American spelling and Oxford British spelling standard spelling of generalisation.

Dictionary definition

GENERALIZATION, noun. Reasoning from detailed facts to general principles.
GENERALIZATION, noun. An idea or conclusion having general application; "he spoke in broad generalities".
GENERALIZATION, noun. The process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances.
GENERALIZATION, noun. (psychology) transfer of a response learned to one stimulus to a similar stimulus.

Wise words

Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power.
Amy Tan