Overrelativize

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To relativize excessively. transitive

    "The discussion of ethnicity in anthropological and historical quarters has been dominated in recent years by a tendency to overrelativize the notion of ethnicity for precolonial Africa."

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"The discussion of ethnicity in anthropological and historical quarters has been dominated in recent years by a tendency to overrelativize the notion of ethnicity for precolonial Africa."

Etymology

From over- + relativize.

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