overdetermined
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of overdetermined
First recorded in 1915–20; over- + determined
Example Sentences
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An understanding that our most consequential actions are largely overdetermined, meaning not reducible to a single motivation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2024
Still, “Saviors,” Green Day’s new album, is a decisive, even overdetermined return to form.
From New York Times ● Jan. 22, 2024
But as the Framers could have warned you, a nation that was dreamed up chiefly by lawyers was almost overdetermined to be run into the ground by them one day.
From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2023
Some of his actions and views strain credulity and feel overdetermined.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 15, 2023
Each one of the elements of the dream content is overdetermined by the matter of the dream thoughts; it is not derived from one element of these thoughts, but from a whole series.
From Dream Psychology Psychoanalysis for Beginners by Freud, Sigmund
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