overemphasis

[oh-ver-em-fuh-sis]

noun

1. excessive or undue emphasis.

Other Word Forms

• overemphatic adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of overemphasis¹

First recorded in 1895–1900; over- + emphasis

Example Sentences

Thomas Dee, a Stanford University education professor and economist, warns that an overemphasis on telling parents to send their children to school with a cold could backfire.

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While California Latinos have essentially been clamoring for the equivalent of a Marshall Plan to build the economy for the state’s largest ethnic group, the political overemphasis on those here illegally continues unabated.

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Listing these catch-up details reveals the introductory episodes’ overemphasis on the situation instead of leaning into the comedy of it all.

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Perhaps because of our overemphasis on differences – especially political – we’ve lost a sense of interdependency between different communities.

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“I think that actually goes part and parcel with some of the overemphasis on these big highway widening projects.”

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• misrepresentation 
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