overgeneralize en · VERB
Etymology
From over- + generalize.
Meanings
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To discuss or regard something in terms that are too general, and thereby ignore significant details or differences.
And — again to overgeneralize from my experience — users may not want a second Twitter either. I was a heavy Twitter user for over a decade. I loved it until I didn’t. I made connections, grew a following, floated ideas, had fun. But it also became a second, often angry, voice inside my head. Do I want to replace it with another one?
2023 July 10, James Poniewozik, “The Twitter Watch Party Is Over”, in The New York Times:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| overgeneralizing | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| overgeneralized | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| overgeneralized | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| overgeneralizes | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic |
Deriveds
Translations (1)
hu túláltalánosít (to discuss or regard something in terms that are too general)