overintellectualized

English edit

Verb edit

overintellectualized

  1. simple past 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 edit

overintellectualized (comparative more overintellectualized, superlative most overintellectualized)

  1. Treated in an excessively intellectual manner

References edit

  • OED 2004 (online)