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What (who) is overemphasis - definition
overemphasis
If you say that there is an overemphasis on a particular thing, you mean that more importance or attention is given to it than is necessary.
He attributed the party's lack of success to an overemphasis on ideology and ideas.
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Emphasis
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Emphatic; Emphasis (disambiguation); Emphasize; Emphasise
·noun A peculiar impressiveness of expression or weight of thought; vivid representation, enforcing assent; as, to dwell on a subject with great emphasis.
II. Emphasis ·noun A particular stress of utterance, or force of voice, given in reading and speaking to one or more words whose signification the speaker intends to impress specially upon his audience.
emphasis
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Emphatic; Emphasis (disambiguation); Emphasize; Emphasise
n.
1) to lay, place, put emphasis on
2) particular, special emphasis
Examples of use of overemphasis
1. With an overemphasis on security and privacy, the inmate is cut off from society.
2. He downplayed the security concerns,"What you see is an overemphasis of the violence that occurs, and then it is assumed that it occurs throughout the entire country."
3. Much like the film industry, an overemphasis on blockbusters is one of the industry‘s biggest weaknesses as far as encouraging innovation and creativity, say observers.
4. However, it was important to distinguish between Saudization and the labor issue. «An overemphasis on Saudization should be avoided; instead, we should talk about the labor issue.
5. But teachers unions and some parents groups have argued that an overemphasis on the tests has reduced education to rote drills and needlessly heightened stresses on elementary students, and that the reported test gains have been illusory, overstated or short–lived.