Generalize vs Epitomize - What's the difference?
generalize | epitomize |
To speak in generalities, or in vague terms.
To infer or induce from specific cases to more general cases or principles.
* W. Nicholson
To spread throughout the body and become systemic.
To derive or deduce (a general conception, or a general principle) from particulars.
* Coleridge
To make an epitome of.
To be an epitome of.
* 1997 , Michael Moortgat, Categorial Type Logics'', in ''Handbook of Logic and Language , ed. J. van Benthem and A. ter Meulen, p. 99
As verbs the difference between generalize and epitomize
is that generalize is to speak in generalities, or in vague terms while epitomize is to make an epitome of.generalize
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Alternative forms
* generalise (non-Oxford British spelling)Verb
(en-verb)- Copernicus generalized' the celestial motions by merely referring them to the moon's motion. Newton ' generalized them still more by referring this last to the motion of a stone through the air.
- A mere conclusion generalized from a great multitude of facts.
Antonyms
* specializeDerived terms
* generalizable, generalisable * generalizability, generalisability * generalization, generalisation * generalizer, generaliser * generalistepitomize
English
Alternative forms
* epitomiseVerb
(epitomiz)- The framework of Combinatory Categorial Grammar epitomizes the rule-based generalized categorial architecture.
