Associations to the word «Overextension»

Wiktionary

OVEREXTENSION, noun. The state or quality of being overextended.
OVEREXTENSION, noun. (linguistics) Application of a term to too many referents, as for example when a child uses cat to refer to all animals.

Wise words

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do, as well as talk, and to make our words and actions all of a color.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca