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What does overgeneralization mean?

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Noun
  1. (usually uncountable) The act of overgeneralizing.
  2. (countable) An instance of overgeneralizing.
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Fortunately for all of us, the rhetoric of both cultural pessimism and postmodernism contains more than its fair share of exaggeration and overgeneralization.
As ever, great care must be taken against overgeneralization across the scores of member countries of the Fund.
Scollon and Scollon put stereotyping simply as another word for overgeneralization.
Too often, the book stumbles into overgeneralization.
For those familiar with his brand of confidently asserted overgeneralization, the book is about what you would expect.
Obviously everything that I say is a huge overgeneralization, but you cannot do anything else in 20 minutes.

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