overreplacement
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From over- + replacement.
Noun
[edit]overreplacement (countable and uncountable, plural overreplacements)
- [c. 1980s?] 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.