0 the act of giving something too much importance or attention: --
An overemphasis on correctness can be damaging to young writers.
It is just the slight overemphasis on research rather than on the full range which is a little worrying.
If one is investigating the waste of manpower in the prison service, one should concentrate upon the overemphasis on security as the main culprit.
In that way both the overemphasis on permissive behaviour together with the doctrine of revolutionary tendency rather than persuasive argument may be rebuffed.
That was a typical example of the overemphasis on the virtues of foreign investment which existed in those years.
Often by overemphasis on assisted area status other aspects of assistance are overlooked.
He over-emphasised the scope for evasion, and this same overemphasis has occurred this afternoon.
We have to make certain that we have a proper asylum system that is not skewed by the overemphasis on illegal immigration.
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.
