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ˌover-inteˈllectual, a.
[over- 28 a.]
Excessively intellectual; concerned too much with reason or mental processes.
1854Bagehot Coll. Works (1965) I. 219 It had no feverish excitement, nor over-intellectual introspection. 1944J. S. Huxley On Living in Revol. xv. 184 Over-intellectual and over-specialized.
So ˌover-intellectualiˈzation; ˌover-inteˈllectualize v. trans.; ˌover-inteˈllectualized ppl. a.
1924P. C. Buck Scope of Music 72 Preaching the over-intellectualization of their art until the red blood has gone out of it. 1929A. N. Whitehead Process & Reality 263 The interest in logic, dominating overintellectualized philosophers, has obscured the main function of propositions. 1933― Adventures of Ideas iii. 53 Even here we must not over-intellectualize the various types of human experience. 1975R. L. Simon Wild Turkey (1976) xii. 86 The sauna of some over-intellectualized exhibitionists. 1975Verbatim Sept. 7/1 Over-intellectualization is rampant: if the Old Believers in Russia avoided the use of the future tense, the only effect would have been to create a new future of some kind, to refer to tomorrow's planting of potatoes, with the old future relegated to taboo—no deep change in speech habits would have resulted. 1977Early Music July 308/2 We must avoid the temptation to over-intellectualize the artists' procedure. |