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oversignify

verb

Etymology

From over- + signify.

  1. derived from significare
  2. derived from signifier
  3. inherited from signifien
  4. prefixed as oversignify — “over + signify”

Definitions

  1. To have or be ascribed too much meaning or importance.

    • It is one thing for woman to offer her body to man's scopophilic gaze, but quite another to oversignify male desire by covering her nature and her sexual being with a masquerade of femininity.

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