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oversignifications

oversignifications is the plural of oversignification.

Meaning of oversignification

Noun

oversignification (plural oversignifications)

  1. The process or result of oversignifying; (attachment of) excessive significance (to something).
    • If contingency defines a realist ideal, then oversignification threatens that ideal. Yet in a context where meaning, whether national, cultural, or so on, is not a given, but the object of desire, oversignification offers a certain attraction.2012, Ulka Anjaria, Realism in the Twentieth-Century Indian Novel: Colonial Difference and Literary Form, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 61

Questions about oversignifications

What is oversignifications the plural of?
Oversignifications is the plural of oversignification.

Words near oversignifications in the dictionary

  1. oversignalled
  2. oversignalling
  3. oversignals
  4. oversigned
  5. oversignification
  6. oversignifications
  7. oversignified
  8. oversignifies
  9. oversignify
  10. oversignifying
  11. oversilent

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