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单词 overintellectualize
释义

overintellectualize

verb

over·​in·​tel·​lec·​tu·​al·​ize ˌō-vər-ˌin-tə-ˈlek-chə-wə-ˌlīz How to pronounce overintellectualize (audio)
-chə-ˌlīz,
-shwə-ˌlīz,
-chü(-ə)-ˌlīz
overintellectualized; overintellectualizing

transitive verb

: to intellectualize (something) to an excessive degree
tends to overintellectualize emotions
What drives us food writers to overthink and overintellectualize what is, in essence, a plastic cup of sugar and ice? Kevin Pang
overintellectualization
ˌō-vər-ˌin-tə-ˌlek-chə-wə-lə-ˈzā-shən How to pronounce overintellectualize (audio)
-chə-lə-
-shwə-lə-
-chü(-ə)-lə-
noun
plural overintellectualizations
… the overintellectualization of wine, the fussiness, the obsessiveness with silly adjectives … Jonathan Reynolds
After all my overintellectualizations on addictions, how corny that the answer's been one infomercial away. Susan Shapiro

Word History

First Known Use

1901, in the meaning defined above

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