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overrelativize

verb

Etymology

From over- + relativize.

  1. derived from relātus
  2. derived from relātīvus
  3. derived from relatif
  4. suffixed as relativize — “relative + ize”
  5. prefixed as overrelativize — “over + relativize”

Definitions

  1. To relativize excessively.

    • The discussion of ethnicity in anthropological and historical quarters has been dominated in recent years by a tendency to overrelativize the notion of ethnicity for precolonial Africa.
    • They believe that in emphasizing the autonomy of Christian thinking, postliberalism errs as Barth did in overrelativizing the faith.
    • Nor do I want to overrelativize things or establish some sort of spurious moral equivalence between us and them.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA