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

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.
Kahlil Gibran