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Etymology

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over- +‎ signify

Verb

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

  1. To have or be ascribed too much meaning or importance.
    • 1992, Valeria Finucci, The Lady Vanishes: Subjectivity and Representation in Castiglione and Ariosto[1]:
      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.