Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

overstatedness

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: over-stat-ed-ness
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

the state or quality of being overstated.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"But in their overstatedness, such claims seem to me to be an especially unfortunate side-effect of the wholly culturalized definition of groups."
"In §3.1.5.2, we have seen another misstep in Sussman's reflections on torture: the overstatedness of his distinction between the anguish induced by torture and the anguish induced by natural illnesses or accidental injuries."
"She was already beginning to write the novel, on the strength of another G & T, but was unable to amend that last sentence, which as you can see still stands in all its pristine overstatedness, to get to the end of this wearisomely long episode -she had mercifully fallen asleep."

Etymology

From overstated + -ness.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: overstated

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does overstatedness mean?: the state or quality of being overstated.
Where does overstatedness come from?: From overstated + -ness.

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