oversignify

English

Etymology

over- +‎ signify

Verb

oversignify (third-person singular simple present oversignifies, present participle oversignifying, simple past and past participle oversignified)

1. To have or be ascribed too much meaning or importance.
   • 1992, Valeria Finucci, The Lady Vanishes: Subjectivity and Representation in Castiglione and Ariosto‎^[1]:

     It is one thing for woman to offer her body to man's scopophilic gaze, but quite another to oversignify male desire by covering her nature and her sexual being with a masquerade of femininity.