overspecificadj.
/ˌəʊvəspᵻˈsɪfɪk/, U.S. /ˈˌoʊvərspəˈsɪfɪk/ Excessively specific; defined or specified too narrowly or precisely.
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > the quality of being specific > [adjective] > specifying too narrowly
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1918 Amer. Econ. Rev. 8 745 In general there is great loss from over-elaborated and over-specific requirements.
1938 Ethics 48 465 Some of the material on infantile impulses tends to be unconvincing..because of the overspecific Freudian abstractions.
1991 C. Tomkins Corporate Resource Allocation (BNC) 192 Such a process is not just ‘muddling along’, although it might appear to be so. It has the broad direction..but it avoids being over-specific.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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