overgeneralization

Definitions

1. The act of overgeneralizing.
   uncountable, usually
2. An instance of overgeneralizing.
   countable

Equivalents

Examples

“"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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