<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>the act or process of generalizing.</li><li>a result of this process; a general statement, idea, or principle.</li><li>Logic: a proposition asserting something to be true either of all members of a certain class or of an indefinite part of that class.</li><li>the process of obtaining such propositions.</li><li>Psychology: the act or process of responding to a stimulus similar to but distinct from the conditioned stimulus.</li><li>the act or process of making a different but similar response to the same stimulus.</li><li>the act or process of responding to a stimulus not physically similar to the conditioned stimulus and not previously encountered in conditioning.</li><li>the act or process of perceiving similarity or relation between different stimuli, as between words, colors, sounds, lights, concepts, or feelings; the formation of a general notion.</li></ul>