OVERREFINEMENT

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean

Synonyms:

distortion; overrefinement; straining; torture; twisting

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("overrefinement" is a kind of...):

falsification; misrepresentation (a willful perversion of facts)

Derivation:

overrefine (refine too much or with excess of subtlety)

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