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overgeneralization

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Definitions

  1. The act of overgeneralizing.

Word origin

From over- + generalization.

Used in a sentence

  • "George Orwell put the easy use of words like 'unique' under the headings of 'pretentious diction' and overgeneralization.
  • Fortunately for all of us, the rhetoric of both cultural pessimism and postmodernism contains more than its fair share of exaggeration and overgeneralization.
  • 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.

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