Associations to the word «Oversimplification»

Wiktionary

OVERSIMPLIFICATION, noun. An explanation that excludes important information for the sake of brevity, or of making the explanation or presentation easy to understand.
OVERSIMPLIFICATION, noun. The process of making such an explanation.

Dictionary definition

OVERSIMPLIFICATION, noun. An act of excessive simplification; the act of making something seem simpler than it really is.
OVERSIMPLIFICATION, noun. A simplification that goes too far (to the point of misrepresentation).

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne