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oversignifying

oversignifying is the present participle and gerund of oversignify.

Meaning of oversignify

Verb

oversignify (third-person singular simple present oversignifies, present participle oversignifying, simple past and past participle oversignified)

  1. To have or be ascribed too much meaning or importance.
    • It is one thing for woman to offer her body to man's scopophilic gaze, but quite another to oversignify male desire by covering her nature and her sexual being with a masquerade of femininity.1992, Valeria Finucci, The Lady Vanishes: Subjectivity and Representation in Castiglione and Ariosto

Questions about oversignifying

What is oversignifying the present participle and gerund of?
Oversignifying is the present participle and gerund of oversignify.

Words near oversignifying in the dictionary

  1. oversignification
  2. oversignifications
  3. oversignified
  4. oversignifies
  5. oversignify
  6. oversignifying
  7. oversilent
  8. oversilver
  9. oversilvered
  10. oversilvering
  11. oversilvers

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