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

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin