misgeneralization

English

Alternative forms

• (non-Oxford British spelling) misgeneralisation

Etymology

From mis- +‎ generalization.

Noun

misgeneralization (plural misgeneralizations)

1. An incorrect generalization.
   • 2002, Robert J. Lieber, editor, Eagle Rules?: Foreign Policy and American Primacy in the Twenty-First Century, Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, →ISBN, page 272:

     The problem was that this concept was a misgeneralization from the Gulf War and did not fit conflicts like that in Bosnia, where the nature of the warfare was less conventional and where the strategy had to be more of a political-military one linked more closely to diplomacy and negotiations.