Meaning of overstatedness | Babel Free

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the state or quality of being overstated.

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Examples

“But in their overstatedness, such claims seem to me to be an especially unfortunate side-effect of the wholly culturalized definition of groups.”

“In §3.1.5.2, we have⟳ seen another misstep in Sussman's reflections on torture: the overstatedness of his distinction between the anguish induced by torture and the anguish induced by natural illnesses or accidental injuries.”

“She was already beginning to write⟳ the novel, on the strength of another G & T, but was unable to amend that last⟳ sentence, which as you can see⟳ still stands in all its pristine overstatedness, to get⟳ to the end⟳ of this wearisomely long episode -she had mercifully fallen asleep.”

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