misgeneralization
English
editAlternative forms
edit- (non-Oxford British spelling) misgeneralisation
Etymology
editFrom mis- + generalization.
Noun
editmisgeneralization (plural misgeneralizations)
- 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.