单词 | overgeneralized |
释义 | overgeneralizedadj. Excessively generalized; that has been overgeneralized. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > misinterpretation > [adjective] > wrongly concluded overgeneralized1874 the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > [adjective] > that generalizes > generalized from inadequate evidence overgeneralized1874 the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > lack of reasoning, illogicality > [adjective] > concluding falsely overgeneralized1874 1874 Ladies' Repos. Aug. 95/1 The..Scylla of sacrificing creatural freedom to the laws of logical causation, and..the Charybdis of immolating individual personality to an over-generalized anima mundi. 1935 Jrnl. Mod. Hist. 7 467 A rather overgeneralized series of contours on these maps. 1956 Nature 10 Mar. 478/2 The properties of larval blow-fly carbohydrases do not completely exemplify Weidenhagen's hypothesis of bond specificity, the over-generalized nature of which has been criticized more recently. 1975 R. V. Redinger George Eliot (1976) v. 245 Slanted and overgeneralized as are many of its discussions, this book fulfilled a real need. 2002 Contra Costa (Calif.) Times (Nexis) 1 Sept. p6 Such dark psychological sources as an overgeneralized thirst for revenge. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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