Meanings
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of overintellectualize
It is not unreasonable to argue that the field has been overintellectualized in that many of the representations are based on matrix algebra, latent trait theory, and . . .
2002, Norman Cliff, John Augustus Keats, Ordinal Measurement in the Behavioral Sciences
comparative more overintellectualized · superlative most overintellectualized
- Treated in an excessively intellectual manner.
The Kingdom of Triparia (www.triparia.cx), founded in 1998, is a classic of the genre: 17 citizens, with fancy titles and a penchant for posting overintellectualized bulletin-board messages, united in an act of collective imagination.
2000 March 28, Alex Blumberg, “It's Good to Be King”, in WIRED, archived from the original on 24 Mar 2005
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