English Explanatory Dictionary

overbreadth

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The excessive broadness of a statute that, in proscribing unprotected activity, also proscribes protected activity.

Word forms

overbreadth

Etymology

From over- + breadth.

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