0 the act of giving something too much importance or attention:
An overemphasis on correctness can be damaging to young writers.
Perhaps this overemphasis on literal images inadvertently discouraged metaphorical responses.
But my main disagreement is with their overemphasis on the role of action in cognitive development.
First, we shall criticise what we argue to be an overemphasis on the prioritisation of smallholder agricultural development.
Yet overemphasis on leaders amounts to neglect of the critical mass necessary for a movement, often regarding them as simply objects of elite manipulation.
This overemphasis on definition reflects the deeper problem that empathy lacks a proximate mechanism.
An overemphasis on these possibilities, however, would miss the point.
Teachers 1 and 5 perceived an overemphasis on specific instrumental/vocal technique and identified the toolkit as a possible way of combating this within their own teaching.
Such a comparison leads to an overemphasis of infertility within the divorcing population, since the term 'duration of marriage' officially describes the de jure length of marriage up to divorce.
