Oversimplification

Synonyms for "oversimplification" (56 found)

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Closest matches (12)

Strong matches (16)

Noun(8 words)
ignore minor detailsjejunenesslumpingmisleading brevitymisrepresentationmoral from historypatnesspigeonholing
Adjective(1 words)
perceived triviality

Related words (28)

Noun(12 words)
reductionist biologyreductionist stancereductionist viewshortcut explanationshorteningsimplificationsimplified narrativesimplismstereotypingtotalizingtrivializingvulgarization
Adjective(4 words)
reductionist thinkingsimplified retellingsimplistic argumenttrophic cascade effects

Related word relations

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More general

7 entries
communicationcommunication strategyconceptual erroreducational mistakeexplanationpersuasion tacticsimplification

More specific

8 entries
brief summarycondensed explanationcurt explanationdiagram simplificationideological simplificationmodel simplificationrhetorical simplificationsimplified version

Collocations

6 entries
educational oversimplificationlogical oversimplificationoversimplification of conceptsoversimplification riskpolitical oversimplificationunnecessary oversimplification

Inflections

1 entries

Derivations

4 entries

Sample sentences

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Tatoeba + Wiktionary

That's a bit of an oversimplification.

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