overillustration

English

Etymology

over- +‎ illustration

Noun

overillustration (uncountable)

1. Excessive illustration.
   • 1920, John Livesy Ridgway, The Preparation of Illustrations for Reports of the United States Geological Survey, page 8:

     There is no rule limiting the number of illustrations that may be used in a publication of the Geological Survey, but in selecting illustrations for a report an author may easily fall into the error of overillustration.