oversignify

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verb

To have or be ascribed too much meaning or importance.

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Meanings

verboversignify (third-person singular simple present oversignifies, present participle oversignifying, simple past and past participle oversignified)

present singular third person oversignifies · participle present oversignifying · participle past oversignified · past oversignified

  1. To have or be ascribed too much meaning or importance.

    It is one thing for woman to offer her body to man's scopophilic gaze, but quite another to oversignify male desire by covering her nature and her sexual being with a masquerade of femininity.

    1992, Valeria Finucci, The Lady Vanishes: Subjectivity and Representation in Castiglione and Ariosto

Origin

From over- + signify.

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APA

oversignify. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/oversignify

MLA

“oversignify.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/oversignify. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “oversignify,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/oversignify.

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