overinsist
English
Etymology
Verb
overinsist (third-person singular simple present overinsists, present participle overinsisting, simple past and past participle overinsisted)
- To insist too strongly.
- 2010, Ernest Becker, Birth and Death of Meaning:
- It would be impossible to overinsist on the importance of this talent for social life.
- 2012, Robert Beum, Karl Shapiro, The Prosody Handbook: A Guide to Poetic Form, page 75:
- So powerful is our fear of uncertainty and chaos that we sometimes overinsist upon order, to the point of ennui in sensibility, and of fallacy in thought and perception.