Oversimplifying

Synonyms for "oversimplifying" (21 found)

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Closest matches (5)

Strong matches (6)

Related words (10)

Noun(9 words)
reductionismreductivereductive habitsimplificationsimplify excessivelysimplisticsimplistic biastendency to simplifytrivialization

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

5 relation types

More general

10 entries
adjectivecognitive biasconceptual errorconsequencesdescriptorintellectual errormodifieroutcomessimplificationtendency

More specific

12 entries
causal reductionismdecontextualizationmisinterpretationmisrepresentationmonocausal explanationovergeneralizationreductive biasreductive explanationselective simplificationsimplistic modelsingle cause modelsingle factor bias

Collocations

10 entries
oversimplifying analysisoversimplifying argumentoversimplifying assumptionoversimplifying biasoversimplifying explanationoversimplifying modeloversimplifying narrativeoversimplifying reasoningoversimplifying tendencyoversimplifying theory

Inflections

3 entries

Derivations

4 entries

Sample sentences

4 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

I think you're oversimplifying the problem.

Source: tatoeba (2662865)

Maybe you're oversimplifying the problem.

Source: tatoeba (2662931)

You're oversimplifying it.

Source: tatoeba (11884300)

You're oversimplifying things.

Source: tatoeba (11901145)

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