Word.ws English Dictionary

overprecision

overprecision noun: the quality of being overprecise.

Noun

overprecision (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being overprecise.
    • The motor coordinations are lost for a moment, all the ways of awkwardness, mannerisms, and semi-imperative acts manifest themselves as a result. This is again the age of the basal — e. g., hill-climbing muscles of leg and back and shoulder work, and of the yet more fundamental heart, lung, and...1909, Tadasu Misawa, Modern Educators and Their Ideals, D. Appleton and Company, pages 280-281
    • A-B-C of correct speech and the art of conversation (Harper's A-B-C ser. Harper 50c) by Mrs F. M. (Howe) Hall is a brief but suggestive discussion of the best usage in English, everyday mistakes in speaking, the use of slang, the voice, and overprecision in speech, with a few chapters on acquiring...1917, University of the State of New York, New York State Library, Bibliography Bulletin, Volume 6, Issues 61-70, University of the State of New York, page 17

Examples of overprecision in a sentence

  • As during early childhood, now the danger is overemphasis upon the activities of accessory muscles and overprecision.1909, Tadasu Misawa, Modern Educators and Their Ideals, D. Appleton and Company, pages 280-281:
  • Especially is such overprecision absurd, inasmuch as it is not certain that it was not really 79 or 81 per cent, or even a little further away.1922, Mechanical Engineering 1922-07: Volume 44, Issue 7, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, page 430:
  • She warned against aiming at overprecision in teaching articulation since it spoils the quality of tone.1949-1967, Bette La Verne Fauth, Warren Wesley Fauth, A Study of the Proceedings of the Convention of American Instructors of the Deaf...

Origin of overprecision

From over- + precision.

Questions about overprecision

What does overprecision mean?
Overprecision means the quality of being overprecise.
How do you use overprecision in a sentence?
As during early childhood, now the danger is overemphasis upon the activities of accessory muscles and overprecision.
What part of speech is overprecision?
Overprecision is a noun.

Words near overprecision in the dictionary

  1. overprecautions
  2. overprecious
  3. overprecise
  4. overprecisely
  5. overpreciseness
  6. overprecision
  7. overpredict
  8. overpredicted
  9. overpredicting
  10. overprediction
  11. overpredictions

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: overprecision (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “overprecision.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/overprecision. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.