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The act of generalizing, or making less specific. quotations examples
[…] Brooten's despecification of the term "tribade" and her tendency to understand it as if it were a generic designation for a woman possessed of a lifelong homoerotic orientation.
2002, Martha Craven Nussbaum, Juha Sihvola, The Sleep of Reason, page 267
(obsolete) discrimination