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overintellectualized

overintellectualized

English

Verb

overintellectualized

  1. simple past tense and past participle of overintellectualize
    • 2002 Norman Cliff, John Augustus Keats - Ordinal Measurement in the Behavioral Sciences
      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 . . .

Adjective

overintellectualized (comparative more overintellectualized, superlative most overintellectualized)

  1. Treated in an excessively intellectual manner

References

  • OED 2004 (online)