English Explanatory Dictionary

overreplacement

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The state wherein a substance, having previously been reduced or removed, has or is being replaced by re-adding it, but overly so, resulting in more of the substance than normal.

Word forms

overreplacement overreplacements

Etymology

From over- + replacement.

Antonyms

underreplacement
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