OVERREFINEMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does overrefinement mean? 

• OVERREFINEMENT (noun)
  The noun OVERREFINEMENT has 1 sense:

1. the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean

  Familiarity information: OVERREFINEMENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OVERREFINEMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

distortion; overrefinement; straining; torture; twisting

Hypernyms ("overrefinement" is a kind of...):

falsification; misrepresentation (a willful perversion of facts)

Derivation:

overrefine (refine too much or with excess of subtlety)