Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

generalizability

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.73 in modern English

Syllables: gen-er-al-iz-abil-i-ty
IPA

31

Scrabble Score

16

Letters

7

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The quality of being generalizable.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"As we all are probably now familiar, these [large language] models can generate novel perfectly formed English text, using any construction that you can think of, generalizing in seemingly just the way that humans do[…]. Piantadosi (2024) provides some nice examples of the generalizability of such models, asking one to provide a story of how an ant might sink a battleship."

Etymology

Etymology tree English generalizable Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Latin -itāsder. Old French -itebor. Middle English -ite English -ity English generalizability From generalizable + -ity.

Usage

Inflected Forms

generalizabilities (plural) generalisability (alternative)

Frequently Paired Words

general generalize generation generic genus

Synonyms

generality generalisability

Questions

What does generalizability mean?: The quality of being generalizable.
Where does generalizability come from?: Etymology tree English generalizable Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Latin -itāsder. Old French -itebor. Middle English -ite English -ity English generalizability From generalizable + -ity.

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