oversignification
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
6
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The process or result of oversignifying; (attachment of) excessive significance (to something).
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "Second a story about how the synergy of media in any particular case differs from that of another and what the political effects are of this difference in candidate excess or oversignification. To understand the aestheticization of politics today, ..."
- "Likewise, although Disney had no such antigay record, it seems equally plausible that its reputation as the “traditional family values” company led to a similar process of oversignification in the lesbian and gay community."
- "Oversignification refers instead to the properties of language itself as performed in the work. Oversignification allows Javier to break from the model of lyric as privacy overheard (on which Hejinian is very precise) to stress the multiplicity […]"
Etymology
From over- + signification.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: over