overspecify
/ˌəʊvəˈspɛsɪfʌɪ/verb
[with object] To specify too narrowly or in excessive detail; to limit too much in scope.
Origin
1950s; earliest use found in Robert King Merton (1910–2003). From over- + specify.
- social realistic
- social reality
- social register
- social revolution
- social revolutionary
- social role
- social scale
- social science
- social scientific
- social scientist
- social secretary
- social security
- Social Security number
- social service
- social sharing
- social skills
- social software
- social space
- social statics
- social status
- social stratification
- social stratum
- social structural
- social structure
- social studies