Meaning & use
Generalizing
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Drawing a broad conclusion or making a general statement from specific instances or observations.
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He was generalizing from one bad experience to claim all managers are unreasonable.
The report avoids generalizing about the entire industry based on a single company's failure.
A note on using this word
Overusing this can lead to logical fallacies, such as hasty generalization, where too few examples support a sweeping claim.
Words with a similar meaning
extrapolatingbroadening
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Words with an opposite meaning
specifyingparticularizing
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