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overemphasis
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun overemphasis has 1 sense
OXFORD DICTIONARY
overemphasis, n. excessive emphasis.
Derivative
overemphasize v.tr. & intr. (also -ise).
THESAURUS
overemphasis
aggrandizement, amplification, ballyhoo, big talk, blowing up, burlesque, caricature, dilatation, dilation, enhancement, enlargement, exaggerating, exaggeration, excess, exorbitance, expansion, extravagance, extreme, grandiloquence, heightening, huckstering, hyperbole, hyperbolism, inflation, inordinacy, magnification, overcarrying, overdoing, overestimation, overexercise, overexertion, overexpenditure, overimportance, overkill, overreaching, overreaction, overstatement, overstrain, overtaxing, overuse, overwork, prodigality, profuseness, puffery, puffing up, sensationalism, strain, stretching, supererogation, superlative, tall talk, tax, touting, travesty
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