blanket terms
Overly broad labels
Blanket terms are words or phrases applied broadly to cover many different things, often at the expense of important distinctions.
Drugs is a blanket term that lumps aspirin with heroin.
Critics use the phrase to object that something deserves more nuanced treatment: Calling it all "content" is a blanket term that ignores the difference between journalism and clickbait.
- catchallContainer for miscellany
- coveringLayer that shields or hides
- hypernymBroader categorical term
- nomenclatureSystem of specialized terms
- homogenizationMaking things the same
categorization · big tent · cover all bases · generalization · oversimplification · abstraction · schema · stereotype · classification · denotation · euphemism · heuristic · metonymy · buzzword · colloquialism · political rhetoric · superordinate · media framing
blanket termsfine distinctions
Subtle, precise differences
technical terminology · technical terms · precise language · specialized vocabulary · jargon
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