Stereotype vs. Generalization

A conventional, formulaic, and often oversimplified or exaggerated conception, opinion, or image of (a person).

(psychology) A person who is regarded as embodying or conforming to a set image or type.

(printing) A metal printing plate cast from a matrix moulded from a raised printing surface.

An extensibility mechanism of the Unified Modeling Language, allowing a new element to be derived from an existing one with added specializations.

(transitive) To make a stereotype of someone or something, or characterize someone by a stereotype.

(transitive) To prepare for printing in stereotype; to produce stereotype plates of.

Example: ‘to stereotype the Bible’;

(transitive) To print from a stereotype.

To make firm or permanent; to fix.

A plate forming an exact faximile of a page of type or of an engraving, used in printing books, etc.; specifically, a plate with type-metal face, used for printing.

The art or process of making such plates, or of executing work by means of them.

To prepare for printing in stereotype; to make the stereotype plates of; as, to stereotype the Bible.

Fig.: To make firm or permanent; to fix.

Example: ‘Powerful causes tending to stereotype and aggravate the poverty of old conditions.’;

a conventional or formulaic conception or image;

Example: ‘regional stereotypes have been part of America since its founding’;

treat or classify according to a mental stereotype;

Example: ‘I was stereotyped as a lazy Southern European’;

a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing

Example: ‘sexual and racial stereotypes’; ‘the stereotype of the woman as the carer’;

a person or thing that conforms to a widely held but oversimplified image of the class or type to which they belong

Example: ‘don't treat anyone as a stereotype’;

a relief printing plate cast in a mould made from composed type or an original plate.

view or represent as a stereotype

Example: ‘the city is too easily stereotyped as an industrial wasteland’;

In social psychology, a stereotype is a generalized belief about a particular category of people. It is an expectation that people might have about every person of a particular group.

The formulation of general concepts from specific instances by abstracting common properties.

Inductive reasoning from detailed facts to general principles.

An oversimplified or exaggerated conception, opinion, or image of the members of a group.

(mathematics) A proof, axiom, problem, or definition which includes another's cases, and also some additional cases.

Example: ‘A hypersphere is a generalization of a sphere across more than three dimensions.’;

The act or process of generalizing; the act of bringing individuals or particulars under a genus or class; deduction of a general principle from particulars.

Example: ‘Generalization is only the apprehension of the one in the many.’;

A general inference.

the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances

reasoning from detailed facts to general principles

an idea having general application;

Example: ‘he spoke in broad generalities’;

(psychology) transfer of a response learned to one stimulus to a similar stimulus

A generalization is a form of abstraction whereby common properties of specific instances are formulated as general concepts or claims. Generalizations posit the existence of a domain or set of elements, as well as one or more common characteristics shared by those elements (thus creating a conceptual model).