Generalize vs Manifoldness - What's the difference?
generalize | manifoldness |
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
The quality of being manifold, diversity.
(mathematics) multiplicity
(mathematics) A generalized concept of magnitude.
As a verb generalize
is to speak in generalities, or in vague terms.As a noun manifoldness is
the quality of being manifold, diversity.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 * generalistmanifoldness
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Noun
- (Sherwood)