单词 | over-intellectualize |
释义 | over-intellectualizev. transitive. To make too intellectual; to treat in an excessively rational, unspontaneous way. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > intellectual superiority > render intellectual [verb (transitive)] > excessively over-intellectualize1901 1901 W. D. Howells Heroines of Fiction II. 45 The intuitions [of George Eliot] were sometimes over-intellectualized. 1933 A. N. Whitehead Adventures of Ideas iii. 53 Even here we must not over-intellectualize the various types of human experience. 2002 Arkansas Democrat-Gaz. (Nexis) 23 June e1 He is not one to over-intellectualize these kinds of things. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1901 |
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