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overstatement

noun

Etymology

From overstate + -ment or over- + statement.

  1. derived from stātus
  2. derived from estat
  3. inherited from stat
  4. prefixed as overstate — “over + state”
  5. suffixed as overstatement — “overstate + ment”

Definitions

  1. An exaggeration

    An exaggeration; a statement in excess of what is reasonable.

    • The story he gave was something of an overstatement of the facts.
    • It would hardly be an overstatement to describe Drummond's next design as an outstanding British locomotive class, and possibly his masterpiece.

  2. The tendency to overstate.

    • She had a knack for overstatement.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at overstatement. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at overstatement. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at overstatement

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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