overdetermine
/əʊvədɪˈtəːmɪn
/verb [with object] technical
Determine, account for, or cause (something) in more than one way or with more conditions than are necessary: direct control overdetermines prices...
- The current condition of the rangelands was overdetermined by a complex web of factors, all in interaction with one another, and in which environmental factors were but one component.
- The dominant-submissive interplay which the playwright labours to construct in words is massively overdetermined by the director-editor's unimaginative choice of shots.
- Their identities were overdetermined by these interests and concerns, and resistance cannot capture the full range of either their intent or their actions.
Derivatives
overdetermination
- It's called overdetermination - they are all reasons, but you can't tell which combination is the right one.
- Yet the overdetermination of the heroine's suffering combined with stereotypically ‘poetic’ cinematography conspires to reinforce exactly these ideas of transnational political tourism.
- Yet without some kind of broader guidance, the composition pedagogy course will remain at risk for the same kind of overdetermination that first-year composition faced (and still faces in many situations).