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
- 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
Antonyms for generalizing
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