Overfacile
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Excessively facile.
"Vernant, Detienne, and Vidal-Naquet all comment upon the exclusion of women as a founding principle of Athens. Loraux's contribution is to explore the psychological bases for the exclusions. She contends that misogyny is an "over-facile notion." The suffering of women in the birth of children was simply outside male experience."
Example
More examples"Vernant, Detienne, and Vidal-Naquet all comment upon the exclusion of women as a founding principle of Athens. Loraux's contribution is to explore the psychological bases for the exclusions. She contends that misogyny is an "over-facile notion." The suffering of women in the birth of children was simply outside male experience."
Etymology
From over- + facile.
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