generalization
noun
Meaning
- The formulation of general concepts from specific instances by abstracting common properties.
- Inductive reasoning from detailed facts to general principles.
- An oversimplified or exaggerated conception, opinion, or image of the members of a group.
- A proof, axiom, problem, or definition which includes another's cases, and also some additional cases.
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