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Synonyms for generalizing


Grammar : Verb
Spell : jen-er-uh-lahyz
Phonetic Transcription : ˈdʒɛn ər əˌlaɪz

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Définition of generalizing

Origin :
  • 1751, probably a new formation from general (adj.) + -ize. Middle English had generalisen (early 15c.). Related: Generalizable; generalized; generalizing.
  • verb make a sweeping assumption, statement
Example sentences :
  • The judgment must also be requisitioned in comparing, estimating, generalizing, and applying.
  • Extract from : « College Teaching » by Paul Klapper
  • The faculty for generalizing is a good servant but a bad master.
  • Extract from : « The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) » by John Fiske.
  • This tendency has been wrongly confused with the faculty of generalizing.
  • Extract from : « Creative Evolution » by Henri Bergson
  • He is not generalizing; he is inferring a particular from particulars.
  • Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV. » by Various
  • At first my observations took an abstract and generalizing turn.
  • Extract from : « The Works of Edgar Allan Poe » by Edgar Allan Poe
  • But the specialist temperament is often not a generalizing and expository temperament.
  • Extract from : « First and Last Things » by H. G. Wells
  • But am I not generalizing from the single case of the fox and hounds?
  • Extract from : « The Face of the Fields » by Dallas Lore Sharp
  • Your fault, brother, is in generalizing subjects, and exaggerating zeal.
  • Extract from : « The Mesmerist's Victim » by Alexandre Dumas
  • Not only so, but he was able to advance this study by generalizing and formulating its truths.
  • Extract from : « An Introduction to the History of Science » by Walter Libby
  • It has come from generalizing all intransitive words into one.
  • Extract from : « Instigations » by Ezra Pound

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