overemphasis

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: o=ver=em=pha=sis

CIDE DICTIONARY

overemphasis,  

 Excessive and unwarranted emphasis.  [PJC]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

overemphasis, n. excessive emphasis.

Derivative

overemphasize v.tr. & intr. (also -ise).

THESAURUS

overemphasis

aggrandizement, amplification, ballyhoo, big talk, blowing up, burlesque, caricature, dilatation, dilation, enhancement, enlargement, exaggerating, exaggeration, excess, exorbitance, expansion, extravagance, extreme, grandiloquence, heightening, huckstering, hyperbole, hyperbolism, inflation, inordinacy, magnification, overcarrying, overdoing, overestimation, overexercise, overexertion, overexpenditure, overimportance, overkill, overreaching, overreaction, overstatement, overstrain, overtaxing, overuse, overwork, prodigality, profuseness, puffery, puffing up, sensationalism, strain, stretching, supererogation, superlative, tall talk, tax, touting, travesty