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overreferencing

overreferencing is the present participle and gerund of overreference.

Meaning of overreference

Verb

overreference (third-person singular simple present overreferences, present participle overreferencing, simple past and past participle overreferenced)

  1. (transitive) To reference too much or too often.
    • Despite considerable overreferencing, which sometimes intrudes into the text sufficiently to disturb the thought processes of the reader, the book is well written.1979, Environment and Planning A, volume 11, page 964
    Antonyms:
    underreference

Questions about overreferencing

What is overreferencing the present participle and gerund of?
Overreferencing is the present participle and gerund of overreference.

Words near overreferencing in the dictionary

  1. overreduction
  2. overreductions
  3. overreference
  4. overreferenced
  5. overreferences
  6. overreferencing
  7. overrefine
  8. overrefined
  9. overrefinement
  10. overrefinements
  11. overrefines

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Adapted from Wiktionary: overreferencing (page history and authors); overreference (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.

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