Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

overgeneralization

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.48 in modern English

Syllables: over-gen-er-al-iza-tion
IPA

31

Scrabble Score

18

Letters

6

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The act of overgeneralizing.

Uncountable

noun

An instance of overgeneralizing.

Countable

Example Sentences

""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."

Etymology

From over- + generalization.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: over

Usage

Inflected Forms

overgeneralizations (plural)

Questions

What does overgeneralization mean?: The act of overgeneralizing.
Where does overgeneralization come from?: From over- + generalization.

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