oversignify
English
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[edit]oversignify (third-person singular simple present oversignifies, present participle oversignifying, simple past and past participle oversignified)
- To have or be ascribed too much meaning or importance.
- 1992, Valeria Finucci, The Lady Vanishes: Subjectivity and Representation in Castiglione and Ariosto[1]:
- 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.