Usually means: Applying terms too broadly, inaccurately.
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General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. overextension: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. overextension: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. overextension: Collins English Dictionary
  4. overextension: Wordnik
  5. overextension: Wiktionary
  6. overextension: Dictionary.com
  7. Overextension: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. overextension: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. overextension: Legal dictionary

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. overextension: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (overextension)

noun:  The state or quality of being overextended; extension beyond normal, correct, or appropriate bounds or limits.
noun:  (linguistics) Application of a term to too many referents, as for example when a child uses cat to refer to all animals.

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