overreference

English

Etymology

From over- +‎ reference.

Verb

overreference (third-person singular simple present overreferences, present participle overreferencing, simple past and past participle overreferenced)

1. (transitive) To reference too much or too often.

   Antonym: underreference

   • 1979, Environment and Planning A, volume 11, page 964:

     Despite considerable overreferencing, which sometimes intrudes into the text sufficiently to disturb the thought processes of the reader, the book is well written.

   • 2010, Robert Vieira, Professional Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Programming:

     The concept of normalization has to be one of most overreferenced yet misunderstood concepts in programming.