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overillustration

overillustration noun: excessive illustration.

Noun

overillustration (uncountable)

  1. Excessive illustration.
    • There is no rule limiting the number of illustrations that may be used in a publication of the Geological Survey, but in selecting illustrations for a report an author may easily fall into the error of overillustration.1920, John Livesy Ridgway, The Preparation of Illustrations for Reports of the United States Geological Survey, page 8

Origin of overillustration

From over- + illustration.

Questions about overillustration

What does overillustration mean?
Overillustration means excessive illustration.
What part of speech is overillustration?
Overillustration is a noun.

Words near overillustration in the dictionary

  1. overillumination
  2. overillustrate
  3. overillustrated
  4. overillustrates
  5. overillustrating
  6. overillustration
  7. overimaginative
  8. overimaginativeness
  9. overimagine
  10. overimagined
  11. overimagines

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