generification

The process of making generic; the conversion to use generics.

Noun

  1. The process of making generic; the conversion to use generics.
  2. A generalization.
    • Out of this the universal is elaborated by generification. - a. 1857, William Hamilton, edited by H[enry] L[ongueville] Mansel and John Veitch, Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic […], volume (please specify |volume=I to...

Origin

From Latin genus (“kind, class”). See -fy.

Forms

generifications