Usually means: Excessive importance or stress placed.
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  1. overemphasis: Merriam-Webster
  2. overemphasis: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. overemphasis: Collins English Dictionary
  4. overemphasis: Vocabulary.com
  5. overemphasis: Wordnik
  6. overemphasis: Wiktionary
  7. overemphasis: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. overemphasis: Dictionary.com
  9. overemphasis: Rhymezone
  10. overemphasis: FreeDictionary.org
  11. overemphasis: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. overemphasis: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. overemphasis: Legal dictionary

(Note: See overemphasising as well.)

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noun:  Excessive emphasis.

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