Overrefinement

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Overrefinement \O"ver*re*fine"ment\, n.
     Excessive refinement.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  overrefinement
       n : the act of distorting something so it seems to mean
           something it was not intended to mean [syn: {distortion},
            {straining}, {torture}, {twisting}]