Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

overrelativize

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: over-rel-a-tivize
IPA

29

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To relativize excessively.

Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"The discussion of ethnicity in anthropological and historical quarters has been dominated in recent years by a tendency to overrelativize the notion of ethnicity for precolonial Africa."
"They believe that in emphasizing the autonomy of Christian thinking, postliberalism errs as Barth did in overrelativizing the faith."
"Nor do I want to overrelativize things or establish some sort of spurious moral equivalence between us and them."

Etymology

From over- + relativize.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: over

Usage

Transitive verb

Inflected Forms

overrelativizes (present, singular) overrelativizing (participle, present) overrelativized (participle, past) overrelativized (past)

Questions

What does overrelativize mean?: To relativize excessively.
Where does overrelativize come from?: From over- + relativize.

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