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

Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
C. S. Lewis