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Overconfidence in an automated machine or process.
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(uncountable, rhetoric, literature) Deliberate or unintentional overstatement, particularly extreme overstatement.
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(uncountable) The use of hyperbole
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(sociology) According to Jean Baudrillard, the excessive and formalized practice of an established system, used as a liberating strategy to disrupt the system.
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The act of magnifying; enlargement; exaggeration.
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Alternative form of overextension. [The state or quality of being overextended; extension beyond normal, correct, or appropriate bounds or limits.]
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An analysis carried too far; the act or process of overanalyzing.
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(politics) Excessive bureaucratization.
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The act, process, or result of overcategorizing.
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(semiotics) An instance of overcoding.
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Compliance beyond what is necessary.
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The result or process of overcontextualizing.
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The act or process of overdefining; excessive definition.
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Alternative form of overdependence [Excessive reliance or dependence on something.]
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(medicine) To diagnose something too frequently, or based on insufficient evidence, or without benefit to the patient.
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Alternative spelling of overdramatization [The act or process of overdramatizing.]
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The act or process of overdramatizing.
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The state or quality of being overextended; extension beyond normal, correct, or appropriate bounds or limits.
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(statistics) The use or consideration of excessive factors in factor analysis.
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(usually uncountable) The act of overgeneralizing.
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(linguistics) The situation where a language user makes excessive use of a word, phrase, or structure.
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A case of overidentifying with something.
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Affected by overmodulation
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The act or process of overoptimizing.
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The act or result of overparameterizing.
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The act of overpersonalizing.
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Able to be overpowered.
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Act of overregularizing.
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The state wherein a substance, having previously been reduced or removed, has or is being replaced by re-adding it, but overly so, resulting in more of the substance than normal.
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(uncountable) The condition of being overrepresented
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The selection of something more often or by more people than would be expected.
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The tendency to overstate.
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Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of overstylized. [Overly (excessively) stylized.]
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The act of overtranslating.
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A period, after exercise, during which a measured function is greater than normal.
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(rhetoric) exaggeration; hyperbole
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The valuation of a logical expression according to supervaluationism.
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(linguistics) Application of a term to too few referents, as for example when a child uses cat to refer only to the family pet.
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