overstatedness

overstatedness

English

Etymology

overstated +‎ -ness

Noun

overstatedness (uncountable)

1. the state or quality of being overstated.
   • 2014, Gideon Calder, Magali Bessone, Federico Zuolo, How Groups Matter: Challenges of Toleration in Pluralistic Societies, Routledge (→ISBN), page 28:

     But in their overstatedness, such claims seem to me to be an especially unfortunate side-effect of the wholly culturalized definition of groups.

   • 2014, Matthew H. Kramer, Torture and Moral Integrity: A Philosophical Enquiry, OUP Oxford (→ISBN)

     In §3.1.5.2, we have seen another misstep in Sussman's reflections on torture: the overstatedness of his distinction between the anguish induced by torture and the anguish induced by natural illnesses or accidental injuries.

   • 2018, Thomas Walters, The Witches of San Pedro Del Inglesi, AuthorHouse (→ISBN)

     She was already beginning to write the novel, on the strength of another G & T, but was unable to amend that last sentence, which as you can see still stands in all its pristine overstatedness, to get to the end of this wearisomely long episode -she had mercifully fallen asleep.