Antonyms for generalizing

Grammar : Verb

Spell : jen-er-uh-lahyz

Phonetic Transcription : ˈdʒɛn ər əˌlaɪz

Definition 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

Synonyms for generalizing

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