0 the action of describing or explaining something in such a simple way that it is no longer correct or true:
To say he is a racist is an oversimplification and simply not true.
It's an oversimplification simply to blame the government.
To make a gross oversimplification, the younger teachers are the most adventurous.
Nevertheless, the new planning-control dichotomy he proposes, though a valuable advance, is itself an oversimplification of what must be a multi-channel system.
These elements may be reduced to two research paradigms - at risk of oversimplification, the macro and the micro, or the quantitative and the qualitative respectively.
It is a view based, in the first place, on a misleading oversimplification of the nuances and complexities of different political ideologies of the time.
However, for the purposes of the present discussion, we will treat them as gender markers, recognizing that this is an oversimplification.
The neat division into five discourses, itself somewhat resembling the second, analytical mode, provides clarity but runs the risk of oversimplification.
