oversimplification
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- noun
- /ˌoʊvərˌsɪmplɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/
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simplificación excesiva
- I think it's a vast oversimplification.
- a gross oversimplification
- a slight oversimplification
- the risk of oversimplification
Some of these things are oversimplifications or actually quite wrong about Stoicism.
- Some of these things are oversimplifications or actually quite wrong about Stoicism.
- Well, I think that's a great question, but I think it's an oversimplification.
- And so your perturbation theory is just a way of building beyond the oversimplification.
- So this tendency towards oversimplification is a problem precisely because in doing so, we are making things too simple.
- But to say that Frye was just a hero, it's a little bit of of an oversimplification.
- It's about, OK, it's, I mean, the oversimplification of it is understand is basically feeling.
Examples
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Looking at rights as grounded in a single concept or foundational idea is an oversimplification.
Academic text (1999) -
However, this dismissal is an oversimplification of the relationship between the government and the governed.
Academic text (1993) -
It's kind of an oversimplification to say that I left.
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But, at the risk of oversimplification, I think we can say one thing.
Academic text (1998) -
That feels like an oversimplification.
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However, to leave it at that would be a gross oversimplification.
Academic text (1992) -
The assumption that all these systems work well would appear to be an oversimplification.
Academic text (2006) -
At the risk of oversimplification, one might note some general temporal trends for U.S. art museums.
Academic text (2003) -
Second, the picture of "the States" and "the business community" as homogeneous constituencies is an oversimplification.
Academic text (2002) -
It is an oversimplification to say that all students struggle with math without considering their individual strengths.
Synonyms
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Making something less complicated so it is easier to understand
Act of treating a problem as simpler than it is by ignoring important details
To make a story or other content simpler and less clever
Antonyms
How Simple
Surface Forms
Morphology
oversimplification = simplification (transparent) = over + simplification
The prefix 'over-' meaning 'excessively' combines with 'simplification' (the act of making simpler) to yield 'excessive simplification', a directly compositional meaning.
Etymology
Oversimplification comes from over- meaning 'too much' and simple meaning 'plain' or 'easy', and you can see the same idea in the verb simplify. It means making something 'too simple', so an oversimplification leaves out important details.