genericize

To make generic; reducing specificity

These questions are too specific. They need to be genericized (past-tense).

by Omar Chatah May 23, 2005

Generalized Anxiety Disorder

A chemical brain disorder that causes one to worry about everything, even things they don't particularly care about. Also causes one to not be able to relax properly. Most people do not take this disorder seriously, even though it is very serious and can cause a lot of problems in a sufferer's life.

Me: I have to tell you something.. I have Generalized Anxiety Disorder and it's ruining my life.
Friend: Oh. So what'd you buy Suzie for her Birthday?
Me: Uh I just told you I have a fucking anxiety disorder.
Friend: Yeah, I worry about stuff a lot too. So anyway about the party?
Me: -_-

by whatwhatwhat77 June 11, 2012

Genericizing

1) The act of generically defining a subject.
2) Software: the process of re-writing code so it is generic and re-usable for many projects. i.e. Forming a template.

The process of genericizing the myriad implementations of the project was long and arduous.

by IrishGeek November 3, 2010

Generalized Anxiety Disorder

A mental illness that involves excessive, exaggerated anxiety and worry about everyday life events. It differs from regular anxiety in the way that little worries are over analyzed to the point of a possible anxiety attack which is very similar to a panic attack.

Some symptoms are:
fatigue
ongoing worry
unrealistic view of problems
headaches
sweating
trembling
difficultly concentrating
being easily startled
insomnia

AKA: GAD

"I wasn't able to finish my paper because I saved it until the last minute and I had an anxiety attack because I have generalized anxiety disorder."

by Syren Summers April 30, 2007

genericide

A unique marketing predicament where a particular brand of a product becomes so common or dominant, its brand name becomes the generic term for the entire product category. Examples include Kleenex, Vaseline, Xerox, Windex and WD-40. Some trademarks have actually lost their legal protection in the U.S, including Aspirin, Thermos and zipper.

#1: "Hand me a Kleenex, would you please? I'm all stuffed up."

#2: "These are Puffs. Shouldn't you say 'facial tissue'?"

#1: "I just say Kleenex for all of them. The brand has committed genericide. Now just give me the damn Kleenex already, my nose is dripping!"

by drm310 September 23, 2011

generalized abstract nonsense

The term "generalized abstract nonsense" is usually jokingly (and endearingly) applied to topics in mathematics of very high abstraction level, mostly category theory. It probably refers to the fact that some concepts in category theory can abstract away so far from the actual mathematical structures that are described as to lose all connection to the actual meat of the matter.

Yoneda's lemma is just generalized abstract nonsense.

by Dominique U March 10, 2018

Generalize

Something people who hate America do. They say "omg they all suck" because of a few percentage of it.

"americans are all racists"
"how are you going to generalize a whole fucking country like that"

by PI55 October 4, 2018