Usually means: Broad statements derived from specifics.
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General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. generalizations: Merriam-Webster
  2. generalizations: Collins English Dictionary
  3. generalizations: Vocabulary.com
  4. Generalizations, generalizations: Wordnik
  5. generalizations: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. generalizations: Wiktionary
  7. generalizations: Dictionary.com
  8. generalizations: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. generalizations: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. generalizations: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. generalizations: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. generalizations: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (generalization)

noun:  An act or instance of generalizing; concluding that something true of a subclass is true of the entire class
noun:  The formulation of general concepts from specific instances by abstracting common properties.
noun:  Inductive reasoning from detailed facts to general principles
noun:  An oversimplified or exaggerated conception, opinion, or image of the members of a group.
noun:  (mathematics) A proof, axiom, problem, or definition that includes another's cases, and also some additional cases; a conclusion reached by inferring from specific cases to more general cases or principles.
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