overperceive
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overperceive (third-person singular simple present overperceives, present participle overperceiving, simple past and past participle overperceived)
- (transitive) To perceive to a greater degree than actually exists.
- 2007, Greg Cashman, Leonard C. Robinson, An introduction to the causes of war, page 378:
- In the United States, the assessment of threat emanating from Iraq was almost certainly overperceived.